ABSTRACT
Heribert Blass, in Chapter 5, assumes that contemporary psychoanalysis would be inconceivable without the theoretical changes presented in this epochal work. He focuses primarily on four aspects in Freud’s text: the concept of self, implicit in Freud’s text, refers largely to a conflicted self; the special significance of the preconscious is still valid for our clinical practice today; the distinction between ideal ego and ego ideal can help us clinically, despite the fact that the superego is not mentioned in the title; and the intrapsychic and the interpsychic are always implicitly linked in Freud’s work. Blass concludes that the interpretation of conflicts and the currently emphasized work on figurability are not mutually exclusive but build on each other.
