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CHAPTER 7. SHAME IS THE NAME OF THEIR GAME
gets paid for it. What the psychologists are doing is the same. Out of a hundred cases, ninety cases
are created by you people.”
I am not saying that the psychologists do it intentionally – nor are the priests doing it intentionally
– they are doing it sincerely; they think it is so. They believe in what they are doing, and their
belief is infectious, so the other person starts believing it. And then their solutions are there, their
prescriptions are there.
If you go to a Freudian, then go to a Jungian, then go to an Adlerian, then go to Assagioli, you
will know what I mean: all four will diagnose your disease differently, because their scriptures are
different. They will all tell you that this is the real problem with you, and none is going to agree with
anybody else. And because the problem is different, naturally the solution is going to be different.
The problem has to be different; otherwise, what purpose has Jung there in the world? – Freud has
done the work.
That was the reason why Jung separated from Freud. He saw the point that with Freud he would at
the most be a great Freudian, but he would never be an individual on his own. And what Freud was
doing, he could do. And Jung started doing it, and he was perfectly successful. Adler escaped in
the same way. If Freud reduced everything to sex, Adler reduced everything to ego.
Naturally their solutions are different because they have posed the problem differently. And if
following their solutions, by chance you succeed, then their therapy has succeeded, not you. But
if you fail, you have failed; you were not following the rules properly. And to follow the rules of
psychoanalysis or any other school properly is such a long affair.
You may need three years’ psychoanalysis, and by the time you finish the psychoanalysis you end
up more puzzled, more messed up than you were ever before. Now you need somebody else’s help.
Now you will be needing help for your whole life. There are people who have been psychoanalyzed
their whole life – going from one psychoanalyst to another psychoanalyst.
The same was true with religion.
They created the problem by repression.
In fact psychology has used what the religions – the pseudo-religions – have sown: the psychologists
have been reaping the crop. The psychologist is really the modern priest and he is exploiting the
same ground, with the same strategy. For thousands of years the priest has prepared the ground,
but people were becoming fed up with the priest, so they were very happy that a new science
appeared. It is not a science at all – just a scientific jargon.
So the people who used to go to the priest – if they are educated, cultured, sophisticated – now
go to the psychoanalyst... the same people. If they are not educated then they still go to the
priest. The priest is cheaper, and less harmful because he is not so clever with words: conscious,
super-conscious, sub-conscious, unconscious, collective unconscious, cosmic unconscious, cosmic
conscious.... The poor priest cannot afford that much.
You can be hypnotized by the psychoanalyst and his jargon. He has arguments to support him, and
what he is saying is in a way right: you are repressed – but that work was done by religion.
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