Psychoanalysis Becomes The Training Ground Of A New Kind Of Priest, The Director Of Bad Conscience: Bad

Psychoanalysis becomes the training ground of a new kind of priest, the director of bad conscience: bad conscience has made us sick, but that is what will cure us! Freud did not hide what was really at issue with the introduction of the death instinct: it is not a question of any fact whatever, but merely of a principle, a question of principle. The death instinct is pure silence, pure transcendence, not givabie and not given in experience. This very point is remarkable: it is because death, according to Freud, has neither a model nor an experience, that he makes of it a transcendent principle.

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia