What is your opinion about psychoanalysis?

After having read the article " Psychoanalysis and the Death instinct", I started to wonder if I really knew what psychoanalysis was. I thought that I had a clear idea about that issue, but after doing research I realised that I was wrong.
I assume now that psychoanalysis is very familiar for the wide public; that is to say almost everybody has heard about psychoanalysis- it can be read in magazines or heard on TV.
The multitude and complexity of the sources from which we receive signals today about psychoanalysis raise an important issue: psychoanalysis is no longer clearly defined in the eyes of the wide public. Today nobody knows for sure what psychoanalysis is.
If I think about psychoanalysis, concepts such as the exploration of the unconscious, dream interpretation, Oedipus Complex and child sexuality come to mind.
I would like to say that I am in favor of psychoanalytic methods for the exploration of the unconscious. As we know the unconscious is part of our mind; I reckon that our mind is a huge thing and we hardly know how it really works. I believe that many of our real- life problems are connected to what we experienced when we were children. The problem is that most of the time we are not aware of that; we don't know why we react in the way we do and we do not know what is causing us to behave like that. So, this method helps us to figure out what is the cause of ours problems by coming back to our childhood.It analyses our childhood memories in order to find those which are causing our mental blocks.

I dont't know anyone who has particularly been treated through it, but I know many people that have been treated through other therapies which use more techniques from psychoanalysis,and they were happy with their results.

So, after all I have explained above, I will definitely attend to psychoanalytic therapy if I ever need it.