Mikkel Reher-Langberg is a clinical psychologist working in Copenhagen with a focus on intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Besides his clinical practice, Reher-Langberg is the former president of the Danish Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, and is preoccupied with the application of psychoanalytic thought within such fields as philosophy, cinema, and music.
In this book, Reher-Langberg undertakes a systematic analysis of the notion of the Ego, such as it evolves throughout the writings of Sigmund Freud. This is done in close readings of central works,... (more)