ABSTRACT
Yet it is curious how virtually all the people who broke away from Freud, whether the break came early or late in Freud’s life, did come to believe in the real self, as something healthy and trustworthy. Some of them did so while making huge revisions in the theory, while others did so with very little change at all. And this suggests that the idea of the real self may not be so remote from Freud after all – maybe it is really very close to Freud, rather than being at the other end of a long line.
