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(1995). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 64:551-567

A Classic Revisited: K. R. Eissler's “The Effect Of The Structure Of The Ego On Psychoanalytic Technique”

Shelley Orgel, M.D.

Re-examining a classic paper by K. R. Eissler forty years after its publication recalled for the author his own “origins” in psycho- analysis in the same period, allowing a vivid context in which to view Eissler's contribution. Eissler's attempt to maintain a disciplined clinical position based on the structural theory as the foundation for psychoanalysis as a science, in the face of many proposed changes in both technique and theory in the decade after Freud's death, made many analysts refer to this paper as a kind of bible for the orthodox. This revisit attempts to explore the questions of how and why such a characterization of this paper has taken place.

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