Freud was an optimist, and when I read his works, I catch a bit of his enthusiasm and imagine that one day I might be healed, regardless of the clear intractabi

Freud was an optimist, and when I read his works, I catch a bit of his enthusiasm and imagine that one day I might be healed, regardless of the clear intractability of my mental problems, so I keep coming back to him and others who followed in his wake. If that makes me a cultist, well, so be it.