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Ego

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Analytical Psychology

In ego psychology the barriers, resistances in analysis are there to be broken down. This would be lecon's position - you have to subject the subject to themselves. But i think that any kind of psychoanalysis which speaks to the ego is taking the authority of the analyst and using that to build up the ego. And then it's further subjugating the subject under these external forces. In this case, it's the external force of the analyst herself, right? So i think that that's a blind spot of that way of proceeding. It's nteresting that freud himself not totally opposed coming from his daughter.

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