The psychoanalytic model prediction and control through the training of the id
pp. 50-75
in: , Models of man, Berlin, Springer, 1972Abstract
Psychoanalysis, one of the great innovations of the twentieth century, both as a therapeutic technique and as a general personality theory destined to change man's image of man profoundly, begins of course with Sigmund Freud. In a real sense, it also ends with Freud. The great theories which we owe to him as explanations of personality development, deformation, and re-establishment (the key idea of the Oedipus Complex and its psychical adjuncts in personality dynamics, Id. Ego, and Superego) were the result of Freud's self-analysis as much as observational inductions from his therapeutic practice. Insofar, then, as every psychoanalysis undergone in terms of psychoanalytic orthodoxy is a repetition of Freud's self-analysis, we shall be forced to consider the career of Sigmund Freud as the paradigm of psychoanalysis, and only secondarily to reflect upon the "Post-Freudians" and their "Neo-Freudian" endeavors.