Each posited subset of ― the ‘unconscious’ permits another strand of contrary motivation to be added to the already tangled explanatory skein, leaving us, if we are sufficiently gullible, so impressed by the psychoanalytic interpreter’s diagnostic acumen that we think we are witnessing elegant and validated feats of deduction instead of being told a self-serving detective story in which the mystery itself [...] is an artefact of question-begging manoeuvres. (Crews 2006, p. 56)