ABSTRACT
Bernard Chervet (Chapter 6) takes us on a journey of Freud’s theorization process by inviting the reader to really listen to the text – that is, to read Freud following his process of thought with its detours, its returns and regressions, and its productions and proposals that create new conceptions and new differences. In “The advent of the superego: An après-coup of Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, Chervet underlines the complexity in Freud’s work by focusing not only in the process of theorization with regard to the mind of the author but also in the process that results in an epistemology of psychoanalytic theorization. Chervet’s work in The Ego and the Id highlights Freud’s dissatisfactions with his conceptions of the life drive and presents the dynamics of the process of après-coup in Freud’s own elaboration of trauma and denial, thus showing how the advances of psychoanalysis may unfold.
