A Disease of Our Time

Werner Herzog on Psychoanalysts: "They are a disease of our time"

"....one has to be very, very careful 

how we deal with each other and 

that's one of the reasons why I hate 

Psychology and Analysts, they are 

A Disease of Our Time, they should 

be all just put on an airplane and 

flown into An Island and they should --

-- in the in the in The Pacific --  they 

should analyze each other but 

they should not bother us -- 

Besides, these, these people --

they just come like just boldly, as if it was 

A Profession or A Science already 

and and they they do not confess 

that uh their knowledge is 

not much more than, let's say, 

Brain Surgery [was] during 

The Middle Dynasty in Egypt 

for during the Pharaoh-time 

So, out with them, forget about them 

they are disease, they are our disease 

I think it is one of the greatest stupidities 

and the greatest mistakes 

of the 20th century there's something finally and definitively wrong about psychoanalysis uh uh I have all my figures in my films are not really psychoanal analysis they are not captured with psychoanalysis and I believe that um um explaining every dark little corner that we have in our soul is a very unhealthy and a very stupid and a very dangerous thing we should not do that why because uh when when you uh inhabit a house and you illuminate every last corner of the house with strong lights the house becomes uninhabitable and human beings illuminated to the very last corner of their darkest Soul uh become inhuman and uninhabitable