Freud's a fraud, and Skinner's of no use

"Do you consider yourself sufficiently protected, sufficiently safe?"

A shadow of fear passed over the face of the President.

"What do you think?" he asked with an arrogance tempered by anxiety, an anxiety masked by arrogance.

"I think you will be as protected and as safe as possible so long as you feel unprotected, unsafe."

"Ah," the President said, impressed.

-from Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia (1971)