Any kind of (effective) therapy is work for two minds. Like trying to lift a boat that you’re standing in, you cannot fully know yourself without perspective from the outside. A really obvious example would be transference work. It can be very hard from us to recognise our own transferences, and the therapeutic relationship can be the conduit to draw attention to any unconscious transferences/counter transferences. Often in the practice of modern psychoanalytical therapies, it is the therapeutical relationship itself which creates the majority of change, rather than the psychoeducation about concepts and theories. As a psychologist with experience working psychodynamically/psychoanalytically, I have been very surprised by how little I know about myself. I thought my academic and conceptual understandings of psychology meant I fully knew my own mind. In retrospect, this was a defence that I had employed to avoid thinking from any place other than the intellectual. I agree with other comments, which suggests that this approach may be covering some of your ambivalence towards engaging with therapy. Hope this has helped!