Most conceptions of culture, including psychoanaysis, have valorized its pacifying/sublimating role as an outlet for our dangerous and often violent unconscious impulses and tensions.

Adorno, Negative Dialectics

In its heroic period the Freudian school, in agreement on this point with the other, enlightening Kant, demanded the ruthless critique of the superego as something alien to the ego, something truly heteronomous. It saw through it as the blind and unconscious innervation of social compulsion. Sandor Ferenczi’s Building Blocks of Psychoanalysis states, with a caution which is best explained as fear of social consequences, "that a real character-analysis must remove, at least provisionally, every kind of superego, and thus even that of the analyst. Ultimately the patient must indeed become free of all emotional bonds, insofar as they go beyond reason and the former’s own libidinous tendencies. Only this sort of demolition of the superego can lead at all to a radical healing; successes, which consist merely of substituting one superego for another, must be characterized as merely transference-successes; they certainly do not do justice to the end-goal of therapy, which is to be rid of the transference, too."

Didn't psychoanalysis show that the supposedly centred subject was always polymorphous and unstable as a result of the turbulent excessive imagination and conflicting instincts?