It’s
not too surprising the Pope visited a psychoanalyst while living in
Argentina. Psychoanalysts are more common in that country than
Wal-marts are in the U.S.A. Every block has one it is said, and
people chat with them as if it were uncool not to.
The
real question that emergences from the Pope’s time on the couch is,
why didn’t he see an existential analyst instead of a
psychoanalyst? The answer may be that there are perhaps fewer
existential analysts on the planet than world chess champions.
Existential
analysis was invented by the late French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre
perhaps in retaliation for the invention of Gestalt psychology or
alternatively, as an upgrade to psychoanalysis.
