But all this stuff of the unconscious looking for love, women marrying men that are like their father, men finding women like their mother, sounds like tired, old psychoanalytic theory, yes?

My own theory is based on Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory of The Mirror Stage, during which a child becomes aware and captivated about by its own image.

Sigmund Freud 's psychoanalytic theory dominated the field for many years before it was challenged by Behavioral and cognitive therapy and humanistic psychology in the mid-20th century.