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The myth of the ‘perfectly analysed’ person

From The Importance of Disappointment by Ian Craib loc 724:

Psychoanalysis carries some idea of a cure (even though many practising analysts might dispute this) and of the ‘perfectly analysed’ person, someone who has really got it together, remains in control of himself or herself, and is in some sense always right. This is a powerful image, and it is arguable that it is part of our basic psychic make-up that we all carry around with us; people come into therapy sometimes with a conscious expectation that they can get themselves ‘sorted out’

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