title: Symposium on The Ego and the Id after fifty years. The need for a new general theoretical frame of reference for psychoanalysis.
abstract: This paper briefly discusses some of the serious problems in current psychoanalytic metapsychology and the need for a new general theoretical frame of reference. It highlights the lack of explanatory power and the primitive nature of current metapsychology. The paper suggests the usefulness of an information processing and systems model which is consistent with neurophysiology.
mesh_terms: D004532:Ego; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D007060:Id; D007257:Information Theory; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009482:Neurophysiology; D013597:Systems Analysis