This Site has as its main aim to study in depth the works of Sigmund Freud, to develop discussion and debate on them, to communicate among other interested parties and to organize meetings with psychoanalysts who are keen to work clinically and think theoretically on the above lines.

Classical Psychoanalysis is widely spread among all psychoanalytical schools of thought. However, in Freud’s mind ‘psychoanalysis’ is a complete entity comprised of dynamic, economical and topographical psychic interconnections under the umbrella term ‘metapsycology’.

No doubt, all psychoanalytical orientations have something ‘classical’ (i.e Freudian) in them but they are far from being ‘classical’. The late Dr Esrael of the London Tavistock Clinic - Freud’s disciple and friend – was present at Freud’s response with disappointment to his adored daughter Anna when she arrived from the London Psychoanalytic Institute telling him about her arguments with Melanie Klein: “Please don’t tell me more. These are interesting views on both sides. However, they have nothing whatsoever to do with the psychoanalysis that I have written about”. (personal communication, Tavistock Clinic,1974).

It is indeed possible that after over a hundred and twenty years we are still almost in the dark as to what Freud himself meant by the term ‘Psychoanalysis’. Is it due to the fragmentary way that we have seen his work? Our purpose here is not necessarily to argue that Freud was right in his views but first to find out in a comprehensive and systematic way what his actual views were. It is true that Freud had been unsystematic in his writings because he had to cover an enormous area of interweaved matters that inevitably was his primary concern. In studying closely his work it seems that his real thinking gradually emerges.

Nowadays those called 'Freudian Psychoanalysts' do not form the cohesive groups that existed in the past although their presence is always most influential among psychoanalytic circles. The re-examination of Freud's work seems to give unexpected answers to many technical, clinical and theoretical issues concerning the origin and the treatment of mental conditions. Thus, it is realistic to say that 'Classical Psychoanalysis' as long as is relied upon Freudian Metapsychology it is a complex nevertheless complete system of psychological thinking.