The point of analysis is not to
uncover hidden desire directly — which just activates anxiety — but to mitigate the defenses that are responsible for repression in the first place.
Not exact matches
A lot of critical approaches developed out of the conjunction of Marxist ideology critique, which aims to expose
hidden interests, and Freudian analysis, understood as the
uncovering of repressed
desire.
Many reviews are shallow, but some go much deeper, often driven by suspicion or a
desire to
uncover hidden truth and expose falsehood.