The behaviours cited by those psychoanalysts are proper cases where the people concerned can't function properly. I just thought that the analogy was funny, and demonstrated how deeply and irretrievably nuts people are who enjoy the really extreme elements of cycling endurance...you are right the dysfunctional behaviours point has nothing to do with cycling, but in the same quote, phillip ogden cites more everyday activities, such as extreme endurance cycling, as symptomatic of the underlying problem.
It's not technically a fact that you can cycle away from everything except yourself. You are always cycling on something, or in something, or around something. Its more the meaning that you attach to your environs, where you've come from and where you are going, which is significant. So I suppose it's down to what you would class as 'fact', and whether it co-incides with commonly held definitions of the term, and others' definitions too. I would never claim to establish fact. And I work in research!
The phrase 'haplessly trapped' comes from 'vic reeves big night out', if you're interested....
'ey up, he's coming at me with his pitchfork <runs>