Dear Nick:

I think someone asked my about that site a short time ago. I only glanced at it and it seemed okay. I change my mind.

This Richmond fella approaches psychology, apparently, from the psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalysis was pioneered by Sigmund Freud. His flawed, unsubstantiated, and often ridiculous theories, as well as with a few other branches of psychoanalysis, still to this day contaminate the profession of psychology.

For example the idea that desire to check the stove over and over to make sure it is off because of an "unconscious desire to burn the house down to get revenge on someone who hurt me" is patent nonsense.

Obsessive-Compulsive disorder is not so much a psychological disorder as it is a medical disorder of the brain. It is thought that imbalances in serotonin, for example, are a major cause of OCD. This is why medications can be very effective is controlling OCD.

It is more likely that the reason a person checks the stove over and over is because of these out-balance brain chemicals fueled perhaps with a fear or anxiety that a fire might be started.

My mother has a fear sort of like this, though she is not OCD about it. Her fear is based in a childhood experience where her mother's gas stove exploded.

Most of our anxieties comes from life experiences of one sort or another, like the one with my mother. Then when a experience a trigger we obsess on the anxiety of it.  Then with some, there is a medical issue in the brain, such as OCD, that strengthens the obsession and creates a compulsion to deal with the anxiety. I think that is about the extent of the subconscious dynamics.

These elaborate theories of subconscious desires of revenge, murder, or whatnot are a far reach in most cases. Even Sigmund Freud said once, "that a cigar is sometimes only a cigar."

I would ignore that website and forget what you have read. It is nonsense.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary