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parts of the self to the object) and finally to John Oulton Wisdom (orbit and orbital objects, internal object relations and nuclear objects introjected). Five concepts were thus delimited by the Grinbergs: - ego : The psychic structure described by Freud that includes unconscious fantasy of the self upon the ego (corresponds to the core of Wisdom´s diagram and includes Jacobson´s self representation concept). - Non-ego: Refers to the self and includes the orbital (internal objects plus the super ego) and the object representations according to Jacobson´s description. The non-ego is in the self, and when it expands itself over the frontiers of the self, it becomes the non-self. - Self: Encompasses the ego and the non-ego as a whole person, the body, the psychic structure, and the liason with the internal and external objects, where the individual is opposite to the world of objects. - Non-self: External world and objects. - Unconscious fantasy of the self in the ego: Jacobson does not include unconscious fantasies, and this links ego psychology to object relations theory. The latter confirms the difficulty with the entry of self in Latin America since the use of self as Montero (2005) explains, remains as a structure based on the subjective experience.
This diagram in the Grinbergs’ illustrates with precise clarity the borders between ego and self . In “The Problem of Identity and the Psychoanalytical Process”, the Grinbergs (1974) builds on Erik Erikson’s (1956) theory of formation of identity from preceding fragments of various identifications, Ernst Kris’(1952) theory of regression enabling creative activity and Mahler’s (1958) studies of identity disturbances in cases of autism and symbiosis, among others, to formulate his own formulation of the sense of identity as “ the outcome of a process
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