"But it is to say that, if my nine years on the couch have taught me anything, it's that the mysterious, conflicted, self-deceptive, and self-subversive vision of the mind that comes down to us from the Freudian tradition — in which our happiness depends on a level of self-knowledge that our own minds make exceedingly difficult to achieve — comes much closer to hitting the mark."
http://theweek.com/articles/599228/what-ive-learned-from-years-couch