Review of Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques.

Reviews the book, Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques by Morris N. Eagle (2017). In this review, the author describes some of Eagle’s perspicacious analyses of classical psychoanalytic concepts, but because the author thinks certain aspects of the Oedipus complex as more salvageable than Eagle does and because the author seems to have arrived at a surprisingly Lacanian view, given his many reservations about Lacan’s theories, of das Ich, one that regards das Ich as an inherently unstable construct, the author also raises questions about the modified ego-psychological perspective that Eagle has now adopted. The author believes that any psychoanalytically oriented clinician and any psychoanalytic thinker would grow from reading and grappling with this book.