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=====Sigmund Freud=====[[Freud]] 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>{{F}} (1940 [1938]) "Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence." [[SE]] XXIII. p.273</ref>
=====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]] expands the concept of ''[[Spaltung]]'' (-- from a process unique to [[fetishism]] or [[psychosis]]) -- to a general characteristic of [[subject]]ivity itself; the [[subject]] can never be anything other than [[dividedsplit]], [[splitdivided]], and [[alienation|alienated]] from himself.
The [[split]] is irreducible, can never be healed; there is no possibility of [[synthesis]].
==More===Barred Subject=====[[Image:Lacan-saussureanalgorithm.jpg|thumb|[[Saussurean algorithm|The Saussurean algorithm]]]]
The [[split]] or '[[split|divided]] [[subject]]' is [[symbolization|symbolised]] by the [[bar]] which strikes through the <i>'''S'''</i> to produce the [[bar]]red [[subject]], <i>'''$'''</i>[[Image:StrikeS.gif]].<ref>{{E}} p.288</ref>
=====Self-Consciousness=====
The [[split]] denotes the [[impossibility]] of the [[ideal]] of a fully present [[self-consciousness]].
It thus indicates the [[presence]] of the [[unconscious]], and is an effect of the [[signifier]].
=====Speech=====
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]].
=====Truth and Knowledge=====
In his [[seminar]] of 1964-5 [[Lacan]] theorises the [[split]] [[subject]] in terms of a [[division]] between [[truth]] and [[knowledge]] (''[[savoir]]'').<ref>{{Ec}} p.856</ref>
[[Category:Real]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
 
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