Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Review. XLVII, 1960: The Id: Present, Past—And Future? Harold Feldman. No. 2, pp. 3-15.

Feldman claims that the writings of present-day psychoanalysts show either

relatively little interest in the id or a 'mere reference to it as signifying bodily energies demanding discharge'. He feels that this lack of interest reflects a 'rejection of the entire freudian concept'. According to Feldman, Freud and classical psychoanalysis saw the important activities of the mind as occurring outside of the 'self' whereas present-day analysts see them as 'emerging entirely from the self in its conflicts with the environment'. This paper is of interest to psychoanalysts only because it is such a glaring example of the confusion and distortion of psychoanalytic theory produced by: 1, plucking statements from psychoanalytic literature essentially out of context; 2, failing to view the development of psychoanalytic theory as an evolving process and hence taking what Freud said in 1900, 1915, 1923, and 1933 as equivalent and static statements rather than part of the evolutionary and changing process of psychoanalysis; and 3, failing to thoroughly comprehend the basic concepts of classical psychoanalytic theory.