What Freud did was:
- Detach the person from the noxious influences of a real,
material world, and render the causes of their suffering imaginary;
and
- Remove from people the right to judge the significance of their
own actions, while at the same time affirming their personal moral
responsibility for the ills befalling them.
These two processes combine to establish a comprehensive
psychological privatism which all but destroys the possibility for
credible political understanding and action. Let me try to give some
substance to these allegations.