Schmidt-Hellerau C
Psychologischen Instituts der Universität Zürich.
Psyche (Stuttg). 1993 Jan;47(1):1-30.
In the sixties and seventies the value (or otherwise) of Freud's metapsychology was the subject of animated discussion. Today the subject seems to have lost its power to excite controversy. The author reconstructs the criticism of metapsychology and shows that the problems posed by the "witch" metapsychology can by no means be regarded as shelved. If we locate metapsychology in the boundary area between psychic and somatic and regard it as an attempt to conceptualise the unity of body and mind/soul, then the author feels it necessary to hold on to metapsychology as a crucial source of psychoanalytic knowledge. Further, she calls for a research programme with a historical perspective to establish an archeology of the argumentative structures underlying metapsychological discourse since Freud.
在六七十年代，弗洛伊德元心理学的价值（或其他方面）是激烈讨论的主题。如今，这个主题似乎已失去引发争议的能力。作者重构了对元心理学的批评，并表明“巫术”元心理学所提出的问题绝不能被视为已搁置。如果我们将元心理学置于心理与躯体的边界领域，并将其视为对身心/灵魂统一进行概念化的一种尝试，那么作者认为有必要将元心理学作为精神分析知识的关键来源予以保留。此外，她呼吁开展一项具有历史视角的研究计划，以建立自弗洛伊德以来元心理学话语背后论证结构的考古学。
