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To how many persons has the average Freudian psychoanalyst brought true inner peace? If statistics were available they would be disillusioning. Why is this? It is not for lack of shrewdness, training, research, and practice on the part of the analysts. The basic answer is that both he and his patients are moving in a vicious circle; all their attention is being kept within the ego, that combination of animal and lesser human traits which has yet to discover its greater self. They seek escape, healing, and freedom where there is none. In that greater self alone the good, the true, the beautiful, and the healthy resides.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 4 : Healers of The Body and Mind > # 73