ABSTRACT
In Chapter 5, Fred Busch continues Paniagua’s theme about the importance of an unconscious ego in The Ego and the Id. I highlight that it is a curious thing that one of the major changes Freud made to his model of the mind, based upon a clinical fact which had immediate clinical consequences, was and continues to be ignored by the majority of the psychoanalytic world. Freud’s clinical insight hasn’t been proven wrong, or dismissed for lack of clinical evidence; it is simply treated as if it never existed. In short, while other sections of The Ego and the Id gained general acceptance, the clinical implications of the new view of the ego were generally ignored.
