Main description:

The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later revisits Freud's classic 1923 essay, which developed key psychoanalytic concepts and presented a radical revision of his earlier theory.

International contributors explore the themes of this remarkable work from their own perspective, with novel and surprising results. There are mysteries uncovered, questions raised about the validity of Freud's perspective, problems in psychoanalytic technique based on those clinging to Freud's earlier model of the curative process in psychoanalysis, cybernetics as a way of evaluating Freud's model, and many other gems. With contributors highlighting the significance of the essay and offering critiques based upon new understanding gathered over the last century, The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later offers a fresh, international perspective on this classic paper.

This book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and of great interest to scholars of psychoanalytic studies.

Contents:

List of contributors

Series Editors foreword

SILVIA FLECHNER

Introduction

FRED BUSCH and NATACHA DELGADO

1 Freud's Error

MARK SOLMS

2 The meeting of minds

CORDELIA SCHMIDT-HELLERAU

3 The Ego and the Id and the Superego

GOHAR HOMAYOUNPOUR

4 The capacious Freud

SUDHIR KAKAR AND AMRITA NARAYANAN

5 Some thoughts on Freud's epochal work: 100 years later

HERIBERT BLASS

6 The Advent of the Superego, An Apres-Coup of Beyond the Pleasure Principle

BERNARD CHERVET

7 The ego and the Id, and Technique

CECILIO PANIAGUA

8 The fate of the Ego in the Ego and the Id

FRED BUSCH

9 Modern Ego Psychology: The Ego

ERIC MARCUS

10 A Generative Paradox: The Subject Who is the Unconscious Master in His Own House

H. SHMUEL ERLICH

11 Melancholia as a Clinical and Metapsychological Agent: A Look over the Ego/Superego

IGNACIO PAIM

12 Consequences of the new structure of the mind

CLAUDIA BORENSZTEJN

13 The legacy of complexity

RAUL TEBALDI