Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Psychoanalytic Treatment
Freud assumed the existence of a unit self which had an interior structure. He said it was made up of the ego and superego. This person interacted with other unit selves and suffered from what were called intera psychic conflicts, that is, conflicts that occurred within a self that was already unified in form. In practice this meant people could make use of the psychoanalytic set-up to abide by psychoanalysis's rules. But after World War II analysts began seeing more patients who couldn't be reached with classical method now,. It couldn't be helped by it, but often couldn’t be reached by it. So they started examining a pathology which stemmed from earlier phases
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