The author addresses the question of the misrepresentation of psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts in the media and suggests that Freud's theory of man's psyche has, at its center, the inevitable and subversive contradiction that all knowledge undermines the narcissistic certainty of the knower; specifically, the unconscious mind constantly works to unseat that which is available to consciousness. This truism, which is the theoretical and clinically demonstrable position of psychoanalysis, produces resistance and aversion to the discipline, its practice, and its practitioners. The author argues, with brief references to three works of art, that paradoxically, by virtue of this misrepresentation of psychoanalysis—of its ideas and praxis, its very worth, and its contribution to society and to culture—the discipline of psychoanalysis is convincingly upheld.