You Are Not the Master of Your Own House

One of the most terrifying elements of psychoanalytic thinking is very tightly allied with religious thinking. There are spirits that dwell in within you, meaning you have a will and can exercise a certain amount of conscious control over your being. But there are all sorts of things that occur within you that seem to be beyond your capacity to control. Your dreams, for example, that's a really good example. Or your impulses, for example. You might think of those as so foreign from you that they're not even, you don't even want them to be part of you. How about what you're interested in? What compels you? Where does that come from? Exactly? Because you...