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Eternalised
Jacques Lacan in 10 Minutes
Jan 29, 2021
French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan discusses his notable ideas including the Imaginary, the Symbolic, the Real, and the Mirror Stage, exploring the significance of Freud's discovery of the unconscious and proposing a return to Freud.
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- The ego is an object driven by desire, not a subject managing it.
- The unconscious is structured like language, with signifiers reflecting the structure of the psyche.
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Lacan's Vision of the Ego as Object
According to Lacan, the ego is an object rather than a subject, a phenomenon driven by desire and secondary to it. He criticizes Anglo-American ego psychology for explaining human behavior based on the desire and rationality of an autonomous ego. Lacan's belief is that the ego is a product of desire and does not actually manage it. This understanding of the ego as object is central to Lacan's lifelong polemics against traditional ego psychology.
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