The first idea that comes to mind regarding the links between culture and the superego, as these issues emerge in rereading Freud, is a clinical and metapsychological question: is there a real change in the demand for, and the indications for, treatment—determined in part by developments in the culture? Is it necessary to search for new analytic concepts in light of the contemporary clinical population, where depressive and narcissistic issues stand out, pointing inevitably to precarious boundaries, to a lack of differentiation between inside and outside. and thus, ultimately, to the way in which love relations with the primary object are established? In this context, the word boundaries needs to be understood in more than one sense: boundaries between me2 and other, in the sense of an intersubjective differentiation, that is to say between ego and object, but also boundaries within the psychic apparatus, between systems in the framework of the first topography [topographic model], between agencies in that of the