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[[Ego-psychology]] has been -- since its development in the 1930s -- the dominant [[school]] of [[psychoanalysis]] in the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]).

[[Ego-psychology]] draws mainly on [[Freud]]'s [[structural model]] of the [[psyche]] -- comprising three agencies: the [[id]], the [[ego]], and the [[superego]].<ref>[[Freud]]'s [[structural model]] of the [[psyche]] was first put forward in ''[[The Ego and the Id]]'' (1923).</ref>

Since the [[ego]] plays a crucial role in mediating between the conflicting [[demand]]s of the [[instinctual]] [[id]], the [[moralistic]] [[superego]] and [[external]] [[reality]], more attention began to be paid to its [[development]] and [[structure]].

[[Anna Freud]]'s book ''[[The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence]]'' (1936) was one of the first works to focus almost entirely on the [[ego]], and the trend became firmly established in [[Heinz Hartmann]]'s ''[[Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation]]'' (1939), which is now regarded as the foundational text of [[ego-psychology]].

This position of dominance has enabled [[ego-psychology]] to present itself as the inheritor of [[Freud]]ian [[psychoanalysis]] in its purist form, when in fact there are radical differences between some of its tenets and [[Freud]]'s work.

For much of his professional life, [[Lacan]] disputed [[ego-psychology]]'s claim to be the true heir to the Freudian legacy, even though [[Lacan]]'s [[analyst]], [[Rudolph Loewenstein]], was one of [[ego-psychology]]'s founding fathers.

[[Lacan]] challenged all the central concepts of [[ego-psychology]], such as the concepts of [[adaptation]] and the [[autonomous ego]].

[[Lacan]] argues that both were irremediably corrupted by the culture of the United States (see [[factor c]]).

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