Delzescaux, Sabine <br/><br/>
Self-Constraint and Super-Ego: Discussion about Elias' Reference to Freudian Psychoanalysis 

 -  2007.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Elias believed studying psychoanalysis was a necessary step. The works of Freud—to whom he sent a copy of The Civilizing Process in 1939—were very important to him. However, it is difficult to determine what he borrowed from Freudian thought, particularly its effects on his concept of self-constraint. What should we make of his reference to the second topic of personality agencies, and more particularly his reference to the super-ego concept? In other words, how does Elias re-adapt this intellectual legacy? This paper attempts to answer these questions.