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==Jacques Lacan==
In his pre-1950 writings, [[Lacan]] sees [[psychoanalysis]] and [[psychology]] as parallel disciplines which can cross-fertilise each other.
Although he is very critical of the conceptual inadequacies of [[psychology|associationist psychology]], [[Lacan]] argues that [[psychoanalysis]] can help to build an "authentic psychology" free from such errors by providing it with truly [[science|scientific]] concepts such as the ''[[imago]]'' and the [[complex]].<ref>{{L}} "[[Work of Jacques Lacan|Au-delà du 'principe de realité']]", 1936. {{E}} pp. 73-92</ref>
===Middle Work===
However, [[Lacan]] vigorously rejects the [[biology|behaviourist theory]] according to which the same general laws of behaviour are sufficient to explain all [[human]] [[psychic]] phenomena.
Only [[psychoanalysis]], which uncovers the [[linguistics|linguistic basis]] of [[human]] [[subjectivity]], is adequate to explain those psychic phenomena which are specifically [[human]].
===Latest Work===
In the 1960s the distance between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[psychology]] is emphasised further in [[Lacan]]'s work[[Works of Jacques Lacanwork]].
[[Lacan]] argues that [[psychology]] is essentially a tool of "technocratic exploitation",<ref>({{Ec}} p.851; {{Ec}} p. 832</ref> and that it is dominated by the [[delusion|illusions]] of [[lack|wholeness]] and [[imaginary|synthesis]], [[nature]] and [[instinct]], [[autonomy]] and [[consciousness|self-consciousness]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.832</ref>
[[Psychoanalysis]], on the other hand, subverts these [[illusion]]s cherished by [[psychology]], and in this sense "the Freudian enunciation has nothing to do with psychology.<ref>{{S17}} p. 144</ref>
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