The Ego and the Id

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"This book revisits and explores, with historical respect but also with lively intellectual freedom, a fundamental text of Freudian metapsychology, about which the editors Fred Busch and Natacha Delgado incidentally and sharply state that "most parts have remained at the center of psychoanalytic thinking for 100 years, some were modified, and some were ignored." This book highlights The Ego and The Id's genial insights, undeniable grey areas, formidable conceptual strength and also premises present in nuce that have produced further theoretical-clinical developments in the decades since. The subject of the book is one, but the Authors' voices come to us from very different countries, cultures, and languages, demonstrating how contemporary psychoanalytic polyphony brings new light and new thoughts on this classic, in turn confirming their inspirational power." - Stefano Bolognini, M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society, IPA Past President

"In this rich new volume, an international group of psychoanalytic scholars discuss Freud's remarkably innovative essay from 1923 with profound implications for the analytic method. In their comprehensive introduction, Fred Busch and Natacha Delgado contextualize Freud's re-thinking of the entire metapsychological underpinnings of psychoanalysis leading to a new model of the mind. The outstanding and theoretically diverse chapters provide many bold and startling discussions, which when taken together, suggest that contemporary psychoanalysis would be inconceivable without Freud's epochal work." - Michael J. Diamond, Ph.D, Training and Supervising Analyst, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies; Author, Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times and Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood

"The editors have gathered an impressive group of analysts from around the world to consider Freud's seminal essay, The Ego and Id, where he reconsiders his entire metapsychology. This new reading brings surprising insights, serious questioning, and admiration for what Freud accomplished. Analysts from every theoretical perspective will benefit from this fresh understanding of a classic." - Virginia Ungar, M.D., Past IPA President (2017-2021), Training and Supervising Analyst, Asociacion Psicoanalitica de Buenos Aires