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In this paper, in order to give a voice to the centenary of the publication of The Ego and The Id, a close reading of some of the emphases of the first part of the work, especially those parts in which the conceptualisation of the unconscious Ego is made explicit, is attempted; the possible theoretical necessities that led Freud to the analyses here and some possible implications of the unconscious Ego in different contexts (problematisation of topographical positions, unconscious functioning, dream theory, unconscious phantasies, thinking theory, analytic encounter and process, etc.) are discussed.
The theoretical determinacy of the unconscious Ego underlined by The Ego and the Id has not been sufficiently made visible in the psychoanalytic literature; in this article, this determinant place is partially elaborated in the contexts of dreams, unconscious phantasies and clinical encounters -assuming that it will also model the functioning and formation of other similar mental processes, functions and formations.
The path paved by The Ego and the Id has created the necessity for a much more detailed and comprehensive treatment of metapsychology and a reading that comments on the new problematics that have emerged; in fact, to put it a little more assertively, many of the decisive problematics of contemporary psychoanalysis have quietly sprouted from this work. In a sense, the conceptualisation of the unconscious Ego, like the unconscious Ego itself, has worked invisibly within psychoanalytic theorisation.