Summary
Anna Freud: Self and Defense Mechanisms
The book in front of us belongs to the indispensable textbooks of psychoanalysis. In this book, Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud's daughter, opposes the opinion that psychoanalysis deals exclusively with the unconscious. The object of analysis, in fact, has always been the Self and its disorders; the exploration of the unconscious served only to re-establish the Self. The book individually analyzes the processes of self defense, such as: denial in the imagination, self-restrictions, identification with the aggressor, etc. "The object of analytic therapy from the very beginning was the self and its disorders, the investigation of the That and its way of working was always only a means that served to re-establish the self." (Anna Freud).
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