The Ego and the Id, and technique

In Chapter 7, Cecilio Paniagua describes a conundrum that’s puzzled some analysts for over sixty years (i.e., that Freud’s new view of an unconscious ego leading to resistances that are also unconscious, explained in The Ego and the Id, has done little to change analytic technique from its earlier model). Partly, this was due, he suggests, to Freud’s own ambivalence towards the implications of his new model. He further argues that it is the magnetism of the id that leads us to make deep interpretations and thus bypassing the unconscious ego resistances, leading to intellectualized understanding.