PSYCHOANALYSIS IS A THEORY OF THE HUMAN MIND AND A method of healing its ills. As a theory of the mind psychoanalysis has a bearing—either as a technique or an explication—on all kinds of systematic endeavor to influence and change human behavior within the limit of the individual's wish to do so. True enough, this wish is not always present as our ready ally, and it becomes our job to induce a desire for change. What we always can rely on is the patient's wish to be relieved of an unpleasant mental state. Only too often the deliverance from mental pain is expected to come about by that legendary recovery of a repressed childhood memory which has become the popular mystique of psychotherapy in many of its varieties. The romantic concept of therapy, so widespread today, is simply being "made to feel good." Contemporary language uses the word therapy with this kind of connotation in mind. People speak of going skiing, talking to a friend, or listening to music