Psychoanalytic ethics and the superego: Introduction to the Key Papers section on Francis Pasche, “From the Ambivalent Superego to the Impersonal Superego”

We are moved to present this paper, chosen by Dana Birksted-Breen for the Key Papers section, before she passed away. There is an important ethical preoccupation running through this complex paper by Francis Pasche and the discussions by Nathalie Zilkha and Vic Sedlak, who all insist on the importance of the psychoanalyst's countertransference work. Dana would have shared this concern.