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[[Freud]] described talks about the "[[splitting of the ego]]" ([[German]]: ''[[Ich-spaltung]]'', [[French]]: ''[[clivage du moi]]'') as a process, observable in [[fetishism]] and [[psychosis]], whereby two contradictory attitudes come to exist side by side in the [[ego]] - acceptance and [[disavowal]].<ref>Freud. 1940b.</ref>  [[Freud]] talks about the "[[splitting of the ego]]" ([[German]]: ''[[Ich-spaltung]]'', [[French]]: ''[[clivage du moi]]'') in his analysis of [[fetishism]] and [[psychosis]] as the process in which two contradictory attitudes come to exist side by side in the [[ego]] - [[acceptance]] and [[disavowal]].<ref>Freud. 1940b.</ref>

[[Lacan]] expands the concept of ''[[spaltungSpaltung]]'' (from a process unique to [[fetishism]] or [[psychosis]]) to a general characteristic of [[subject]]ivity itself; the [[subject]] can never be anything other than [[divided]], [[split]], [[alienation|alienated]] from himself.

The [[subjectsplit]] is irreducible, can never be anything other than [[divided]], [[split]], healed; there is no possibility of [[alienation|alienatedsynthesis]] from himself.

The [[subject]] is [[split]] by the very fact that he is a "[[speaking being]],"<ref>{{E}} p.269</ref> because [[speech]] [[divides]] the [[subject]] of the [[enunciation]] from the [[subject]] of the [[statement]].