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Human beings are essentially maladaptive.
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[[Lacan]] argues that the stress put by [[ego-psychology]] on the [[adaptation]] of the [[patient]] to [[reality]] reduces [[psychoanalysis]] to an instrument of social control and conformity.
He sees this as a complete betrayal of [[psychoanalysis]], which he regards as an essentially subversive practice.
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[[Lacan]] regards it as significant that the [[adaptation]] theme was developed by the European psychoanalysts who had emigrated to the USA in the late 1930s.
These analysts felt not only that they had to adapt to life in the USA, but also that they ahd to adapt psychoanalysis to American tastes (E, 115).
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