The Ego and the Id

Fred Busch, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He has published over eighty articles on psychoanalytic technique and has been invited to give papers and clinical workshops nationally and internationally. His last four books are Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind (2014); The Analyst’s Reveries: Explorations in Bion’s Enigmatic Concept (2019); Dear Candidate: Analysts from Around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession (2020) and A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique (2021). Forthcoming in 2023 is Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads: An International Perspective. Natacha Delgado is a member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association Publications Committee. She is a clinical psychoanalyst in private practice.

List of contributors

Series editor's foreword

SILVIA FLECHNER

Introduction

FRED BUSCH & 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 & AMRITA NARAYANAN

5 Some thoughts of Freud’s epochal work: 100 years later

HERIBERT BLASS

6 The advent of the supergo: an après-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 new ego

ERIC R. 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

IGNÁCIO A. PAIM FILHO

12 Consequences of the new structure of the mind

CLAUDIA LUCÍA BORENSZTEJN

13 The legacy of complexity

RAÚL TEBALDI

Index