(1967). Psychoanalytic Review, 54C:83-106 Prometheus Reconsidered: Sublimation and Vicissitudes of the Symbolic Ego Republications of certain of the more significant psychoanalytic classics dealing with ego operations4 14 18 and new works reaffirming Freud's insistence upon the superiority of the structural hypothesis1 15 attest to the growing importance of these concepts in psychoanalytic theorizing today. This shift in a natural continuum that began with an exploration of the id, gradually supplemented by a greater and greater interest in the less instinctually determined workings of the psyche, has been primarily an outgrowth of the exigencies of clinical practice. The literature in regard to this is extensive and need not be reviewed at this time.19 With the above in mind it hopefully will not seem too presumptuous if an elaboration of Freud's basic formulations concerning the popular Greek myth, Prometheus, is now attempted. This undertaking seems particularly propitious, not only because Freud interpreted this myth principally in terms of his initial emphasis on “id psychology,& [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
