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Since it's a pretty old show, I will only write the good and the bad parts of Anno's theoretical approach. Some spoilers included unintentionally-

The Good ones:
-Knowledge of the splitting of bad and good objects based on the breast of Shinji' and Asuka' mother.
-Klein's interpretation of Freud as a paranoid-schizoid stage(at the end of Todestrieb)
-Depressive stage(splitting the objects, as well as the ego, have become the whole)
-Mirror stage- entering into the symbolic order(Not bad exactly, it was represented automatically)
-Projection of ego-libido vs. object-libido(Freud's comment on the three essays.)
-Adam Kadmon and the representation of Binah as Lilith(Kaji's suffering lead to kindness speech was good for the ... tree of life)
-Clark & Chalmers The Extended Mind projection
-Angels vs. Eva units
-AT field description

The Bad ones:

-Overexplicit understanding of the Oedipus and Electra complex
-Shouting about the symbols in the show prevents the audience to dig into them
-Lack of enough knowledge on psychoanalysis, some aspects of the human psyche are reduced
-The description of desire, the jouissance of Nancy and Lacan and Deleuze's rectifying desire are missed
-Not a bad end, but only serves for the purpose of the deconstruction of the genre as many said

Overall, the creator's good effort of blending the theories by means of his search of the Self as well as Selflessness has been presented, however, his understanding of the concepts is not exactly complete in themselves. Not a pretentious story, as far as I understand, I appreciate him but I was expecting much more than this. So, 7 would be a fair score for the legend of NGE.

'Fetus's dream to be reborn as a human....'

Interesting story about salvation/redemption. I was hoping to watch this anime one day but did not think that the day will be today. It is not a masterpiece but it has some unique elements.

During this review, I will explore and open the terms up with my background knowledge and associations of interlinked situations which I consider to demonstrate Haibane Renmei in its full effect.

(SPOILERS) This is a short critical review, so it would be better if you check it out when you finished the anime.

''To recognize what owns sin is to have no sin" This was the quote ... that has been told by wise-man archetype in the middle of the series. The declaration of ownership of the sin will guide the sinners to salvation if you take the words in its own meaning. However, the horizon of the quote is deeper than you thought - the recognition of himself by confronting himself aims to break the chains of identity that the person has no longer bound by the illusion of the identity of the self and shall be free.

The penance would be the vain word for the description of the story or at least the penance would not have changed their way to salvation during the small jobs which fill the can -either the feeling of the time to go under the transformation of the confrontation with the self which only comes when the person's state of being is being-towards-death. Interestingly, Reki discovers her own true dream that she has forgotten about but has never stopped to search through the bushes although she declares there is no salvation for her which was hindered by the inability to call help/utterance for her own finitude when she actually implores to Rakka, the words have been told to illuminate the way to salvation by the uncanny face of the death that she looked at. Yet, the dissolution of the illusion started at the beginning of the series which we learned, when she found the cacoon she decided to pretend as if she was something, in that case, it does not matter if she was or she was not like people around her claims her selfishness. This pretension argument is very important for the story because it brings the question of the good and evil/the pattern of our behavior and our moral compass if they shape our way of life. What we should depend on? Either value rational action or instrumentally rational action. Weber claims that the conceptualization of salvation has been changed from the former one to the latter one and we actually see this in this series, Reki decided to be good Haibane for Rakka due to instrumentally rational action, namely, it was the last hope for her own salvation. It was questioned though when Rakka did not want to believe it - but it might be the day of flight has nothing to do with the types of actions which we express rather than the recognition, I meant that to be good Haibane was not the password to unlock the door yet the confrontation was the answer like Rakka did by chasing after the reified identity that she wanted to break not only for inner self(dreams/past life experience) but also for outer self(jobs exploration/present life experience).  

The show has a tendency of failed techné, as I called "daily job" perspective. The rupture of Being comes by it, Being has been put into work among beings. Practically, Rakka has become a tool for Reki to break this overwhelming sway. In the way of techné, the violence doing of Reki helped her for the salvation or at least she stepped out of beings. Throwedness conceptualization is also matching with the show, they were sent by someone else more powerful than their existence. However, I did not mean God because the salvation of declaration does not come by the particular symbols as St. Paul mentioned. It is very intriguing how we can analyze the show by leaning our back on the 20th-century philosophy I can tell.