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Psychoanalysis, if they insisted, every profession had its own jargon. In criminology they talked of poroscopy, and no outsider had any idea what it meant - and in Witzwil Labour Camp they called the warders "screws". That's the way it was, every profession had its own jargon, and psychologists talked of schizophrenia, psychopathy, anxiety neurosis and psycho ... psycho ... psychoanalysis. That's right ...
Psychoanalyse! Mira, Psychoanalyse… Jeder Beruf hat seine Sprache… In der Kriminalistik sprach man auch von Poroskopie, und kein Laie verstand, was darunter gemeint war, und in Witzwil nannten die Gefangenen die Wärter ›Pföhle‹… Es ist nun einmal so: jeder Beruf hat seine Sprache, und die Psychiater sprachen eben von Schizophrenie, Psychopathie, Angstneurose und Psycho… Psycho… Psychoanalyse.
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