For me the real problem isn't about elitism or the opposite of it. For me the real problem is about how to convey at all what psychoanalysis is all about. I rarely talk/write/discuss my therapy experiences precisely because I don't have simple words to explain with enough precision what goes on. When I read the session notes from this forum for instance, then I just understand that what goes on in my therapy/analysis is something completely different, the goals are different, the methods are different, the general ideas are different. If I would try to explain them in simple terms then it might sound incredibly arrogant and I thus, I don't find it useful.

I'm taking some psychology classes in my university where I work and here the psychoanalytic ideas are completely taboo - there is an extreme CBT hype. When I listen to what people know about psychoanalysis then they only know the most stereotypical things and it seems to me that they really believe that in psychoanalytic sessions analysts urge the patients to give up their resistances, or talk endlessly about random association while sleeping behind the couch, or whatever else Freud wrote in the beginning of the last century. They take all those things concretely and literally, without understanding the meaning behind those things. I am not sure it is possible to grasp the meaning behind these things without really experiencing analysis yourself.

I also sometimes read the reddit sub of psychoanalysis and there seem to be many people who do not have any clinical experience themselves but approach from the philosophical point of view. They seem to be fascinated about all sorts of ideas but again, reading them I'm not sure they truly grasp the meaning of these ideas because they haven't experienced this stuff on the couch themselves.

So, unfortunately I don't agree your optimism about explaining the essence of psychoanalysis meaningfully with simple words. Although I definitely agree that jargon doesn't help here either.