Abstract
Abstract In this article I have chosen to approach the topic of personal truth, always subjected to repression, therefore being unconscious. This truth governs the choices in our lives, the attitudes and desires. Repression shows that this truth is unacceptable, unutterable – it must not be exposed, presented, or even consciously represented. When we discover it and manage its integration within the ensemble of our personality, we achieve the capacity to truly love and live, in an authentic manner. The process towards uncovering this truth is difficult and involves many reorganisations on the level of psychic reality, of self-image, of relationships with others as well as with one’s self. The reaction when faced with this discovery is fear, and the reaction towards psychoanalysis, which facilitates the discovery of this truth, is hatred. When personal truth is repressed and its attempts at breaching the conscious are obstructed by perversely imposing a religious truth which excludes it and confers absolute power onto the superego before the ego, the analytic endeavour must lead to a reinvestment of the patient’s ego, so that, later on, the analyst can become the partner of this ego in the pursuit of personal truth.
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