Editing Psychoanalysis (section)

===''The Question of Lay Analysis''===
Freud's worldview, with dream interpretation as ''the royal way into unconscious'', wasn't conceived as a source of income (''money is not a child's desire''), but as a method whose appropriation is open to everyone. In the ''Wednesday round'' of young psychoanalysis, academics and ‘uneducated’ worked together on an equal footing to rediscover the happiness lost in the Dark Continent of the human soul – not easy to understand for some outsiders.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Freud |first1=Sigmund |title=Freud's letters to Fliess |date=16 January 1897 |pages=320 |quote=Happiness is the subsequent fulfilment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth makes us so unhappy; money was not a childhood wish.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gay |first1=Peter |title=Freud. Eine Biographie für unsere Zeit |date=1995 |publisher=Fischer |location=Frankfurt am Main |page=200}}</ref> In order to counteract misunderstandings, Freud clearly sets out the only condition for being able to pursue this interest seriously in his treatise on ''[[The Question of Lay Analysis]]'': the methodical examination of one's own inner situation. Wherever possible with the assistance of an already experienced psychoanalyst.

Psychoanalytic perspectives are also used outside the therapeutic field, for example in interpretation of philosophical concepts (replacing Kant's [[A priori and a posteriori|a priori]] with the conditions of mental apparatus)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Freud |first1=Sigmund |author1-link= |title=Gesammelte Werke |publisher=Anna Freud |year=1955 |editor1-link=Band 17 |edition=5 |volume=XVII |location=London. Editorial: Imago Publishing |pages=152 |language=German}}</ref> and other products of cultural-civilisational creativity of mankind as well as its zoological closest relatives.