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==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==
In his pre-war writings [[Lacan]] is mainly concerned to establish a distinction between the [[ego-ideal]] and the [[superego]], and does not refer to the [[ideal ego]].
===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 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.
The [[ideal ego-ideal]] is always accompanies the [[signifierego]] operating , as ideal, an internalised plan of the ever-[[lawpresent]], attempt to regain the guide governing omnipotence of the [[subjectpreoedipal]]'s position in the [[symbolicdual relation]] . Though formed in [[orderprimary identification]], and hence anticipates secondary (the [[Oedipalideal ego]]) [[identification]] or is continues to play a product role as the source of that all [[secondary identification]]s.<ref>{{S1E}} p.141; {{L}} 1957-82</ref>.
==Lacanian Algebra==The [[ideal ego]], on the other hand, originates is written '''<i>i(a)</i>''' in the [[specular imageLacan]] of the ian [[mirror stagealgebra]]; it is a promise of future synthesis towards which the [[ego]] tends, the [[illusion]] of unity on which and the [[egoideal]] is builtwritten '''I(A)'''.
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