The self-psychology of the psychoanalysts

An attempt to show that the implied psychological doctrine of the psychoanalysts is essentially personalistic, and that self-psychology can interpret all the facts discovered by psychoanalysts. The concept of "unconscious" is discarded as illogical and untenable; even the psychoanalysts tend to regard it as a kind of self, or dissociated personality, and hence best handled in terms of self-psychology. The concept of the impersonal "complex" is replaced, even in psychoanalytic thinking, by the wholly personalistic conception of the complex as a self's obsessing desire. The authors feel that psychoanalytic procedure would gain immensely by completely discarding its impersonalistic remnants and embracing self-psychology.