توهمات طبقه بندی روانپزشکی (1963)

The purpose of this study was not to discuss the validity of the existing psychiatric classification, but to draw attention to the various unconscious irrational factors that may have influenced the work of the classifiers. Some of them, owing to an imperfect notion of the nature of classification, have wanted to elaborate exclusively practical or exclusively abstract classifications. Others have unconsciously projected various kinds of numerical, linguistic, sociological or cultural patterns into their classifications. And, finally, some others have yielded to a subconscious personal dynamism, which had led them to gratify some subconscious emotional tendencies or to solve some of their own problems by proxy.