I also find psychoanalytic theory deeply interesting and valuable, and while I'm not in analysis my therapist is a psychoanalyst and my therapy takes a psychoanalytic approach, which I believe has been and continues to be transformative for me in ways that other modalities never could have been. I still think this quote comes off incredibly poorly and makes psychoanalysis sound more manipulative and inaccessible than it really is in most cases, partially because of the writer's overreliance on jargon and glib oversimplification of the process.

Whether the issue is that the writer is an arrogant douchebag or just someone with a language barrier or both, it's a shame that this answer is giving people the impression that psychoanalysis is an inflexible and old-fashioned modality that relies on manipulation, when that really isn't accurate to how so many skilled and ethical analysts practice today (there are of course variations in rigidity of approach, and there are unskilled unethical analysts just like any other field). Those stereotypes are already so prevalent in the US, and they scare many people away from psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy who might otherwise find that it's a powerful useful tool.

I also don't think simple jargon-free language makes psychoanalysis sound more elitist than jargon does--quite the opposite.