The Archaic Maternal Superego
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It is possible to argue that the concept is somehow in a latent state, under other names, in works that concern its clinical and theoretical area of interest or related matters. The sense in which I employ the term here is to designate a set of problems which are both clinical and theoretical, not the name for a supposed metapsychological agency whose theoretical necessity would be questionable. This is so because anticipating the argument that I will develop the archaic maternal superego is a function of the superego, the superego pure and simple which, qua agency in the way Freud defined it, attends to more than one function.
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