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"[[ego-ideal]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[{{Top}}idéal du moi]]''){{Bottom}}

==Sigmund Freud====Ego--Ideal, Ideal Ego and Superego==In [[Freud]]'s writings , it is difficult to discern any systematic [[distinction ]] between the [[three ]] related [[terms ']] "[[ego-ideal' ]]" (''[[Ich-ideal]]''), '"[[ideal ego' ]]" (''[[Ideal Ich]]''), and [[superego]] (''[[Superego|Über-Ich]]''), although neither are the terms simply used interchangeably.

==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan]], however, argues that these three '"[[ego-ideal|formations of the ego' ]]" are each quite distinct [[concepts ]] which must not be confused with one [[another]].

==Ego--Ideal and Superego==

===Identification with the Father===Although both the [[ego-ideal]] and the [[superego]] are linked with the decline of the [[Oedipus complex]], and both are products of [[identification]] with the [[father]], [[Lacan]] argues that they [[represent ]] different aspects of the [[father]]'s [[dual ]] [[role]].

===Repression and Sublimation===The [[superego]] is an [[unconscious]] [[agency]] whose function is to [[repression|repress]] [[sexuality|sexual]] [[desire]] for the [[mother]], whereas the [[ego-ideal]] exerts a [[conscious]] pressure towards [[sublimation]] and provides the coordinates which enable the [[subject]] to take up a [[sexual difference|sexual position ]] as a [[man]] or [[woman]].<ref>{{L}} 1938''[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Les complexes familiaux dans la formation de l'individu. Essai d'analyse d'une fonction en psychologie]]'', [[Paris]]: Navarin, 1984. p. 59-62)</ref>

==Ego--Ideal and the Ideal Ego==In his post-war writings [[Lacan pays]] pays more attention to distinguishing the [[ego-ideal]] from the [[ideal ego]] ([[Fr]]. ''[[moi idéal]]''). Thus in the 1953-4 [[seminar]], he develops the [[optical model]] to distinguish between these two [[formation]]s.

Thus in ===Introjection and Projection===He argues that the 1953[[ego-4 ideal]] is a [[seminarsymbolic]] [[introjection]], he develops whereas the [[ideal ego]] is the source of an [[optical modelimaginary]] to distinguish between these two formations[[projection]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 414</ref>

He argues that the ===Symbolic===The [[ego-ideal]] is a the [[signifier]] operating as [[symbolicidealism|ideal]] , an internalized plan of the [[introjectionlaw]], whereas the [[ideal egoguide]] governing the [[subject]]'s [[position]] is in the source of an [[imaginarysymbolic]] [[order]], and hence anticipates secondary ([[Oedipal]]) [[identification]] or is a product of that [[projectionidentification]].<ref>{{S8S1}} p.414)141</ref>

<!--But for [[The Subject|the subject]] to come into [[being]], one must find "a guide beyond [[the imaginary]], on the level of [[the symbolic]] plane. . . . This guide governing [[The Subject|the subject]] is the ego-[[ideal]] " (1988a, p. 141). The ego-ideal, according to Lacan, is the [[signifierOther]] operating as ideal(caregiver) [[speaking]]. From that point on, an internalised plan of the [[lawsymbolic order]] ([[language]]) dominates over the [[imaginary order]], which is reduced to being a decoy-->===Imaginary===The [[ideal ego]], on the guide governing other hand, originates in the [[subjectspecular image]]'s position in of the [[symbolicmirror stage]]; it is a promise of [[future]] [[dialectic|synthesis]] towards which the [[orderego]]tends, and hence anticipates secondary (the [[Oedipalillusion]]) of [[identificationautonomy|unity]] or is a product of that on which the [[identificationego]]is built.<ref>{{S1}} p.141; {{L}} 1957-8</ref>

The [[ideal ego]], on always accompanies the other hand[[ego]], originates in the as an ever-[[specular imagepresent]] attempt to regain the omnipotence of the [[mirror stagepreoedipal]]; it is a promise of future synthesis towards which the [[egodual relation]]. Though formed in [[primary identification]] tends, the [[illusionideal ego]] continues to play a role as the source of unity on which the all [[egosecondary identification]] is builts.<ref>{{E}} p. 2</ref>.

==Lacanian Algebra==The [[ideal ego]] always accompanies the is written '''<i>i(a)</i>''' in [[egoLacan]], as an ever-present attempt to regain the omnipotence of the ian [[preoedipalalgebra]] , and the [[dual relationego ideal]]is written '''I(A)'''.

Though formed in ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Algebra]]* [[Desire]]* [[Dual relation]]||* [[Ego]]* [[Father]]* [[Identification]]||* [[Imaginary]]* [[Introjection]]* [[Optical model]]||* [[Projection]]* [[Repression]]* [[Subject]]||* [[primary identificationSublimation]], the * [[ideal egoSuperego]] continues to play a role as the source of all * [[secondary identificationSymbolic]]s.<ref>{{EAlso}} p.2</ref>.

The [[ideal ego]] is written i(a) in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]], and the [[ego ideal]] is written '''== References ==<idiv style="font-size:11px" class="references-small">I(A)<references /i>'''.</div>

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