The Importance of Experience in Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis shows that people who cause great evil we should not elevate them into sublime bironesque demoniac figures of evil the gap between their intimate experience and the horror of their acts is always immense so again the experience we have of our lives from within the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing is fundamentally a lie that's not the point of truth. Let me give you two extreme examples which i already developed in some of my earlier books one western one eastern the west per joseph  the grey eminence of cardinal ruchelier he was well the most brutal real political real political real politician that you can imagine organizing kidnapping torture dark plotting