*The Psychoanalytic Crisis: The Place of Ego in a Contemporary World DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107249*

We live in a social moment where one may be/have almost everything through technology. It might be possible to change our body to a different sex, changing our phenotipical characteristics, denying genotypical issues. However, the emotional difficulties require an internal place to welcome and understand them.

In 1911, Freud [15] presented his famous case of Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber, former president of Saxon Court of Appeal, who in his years of psychiatric internment wrote: "Memoirs of my nervous illness" [16]. This renowned judge described in his book paranoid delusions, which allowed the first psychoanalytic discussion about psychoses, demonstrating how a body deconstruction is linked to an egoic disintegration.

Therefore, the present chapter has the objective to highlight a topic that seems obscured by what is "politically correct" inside the same psychoanalytic circle, in which we cannot think about what is behind transsexuality, body mutilation, and moreover, the sexual organ, which identifies humans with their internal parents. The search for physical alteration has increased a lot [17] and is being accepted as something regular. We see it as barbarian when sexual transition is encouraged in children, who are still in psychic and physical development.

We notice a lack of recognition of the psychic suffering, which might indicate a disconnection with the body. We also see a denial of looking at narcissistic identitary suffering that is in the center of the question when you want to become somebody else.

In what follows, we will go through the formation of Ego and the symbolic process, in order to understand the narcissistic identitary suffering inserted at the search of a social naming to define identity. Also, we will attempt to understand the meaning of transexuality and how this theme might be brought to a psychoanalytic clinical setting. So, is there a crisis in psychoanalysis? What is the place of the analyst in the contemporary world?
