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[[Freud]] talks about the "[[split|splitting of the ego]]" ([[Gr]]. ''[[Ich-spaltung]]'', [[Fr]]. ''[[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}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence]]." [[SE]] XXIII, 1938. p.273</ref>

[[Image:Lacan-saussureanalgorithmSAUSSUREANALGORITHM.jpggif|thumb|150px|right|[[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]], [[Image:StrikeS.gif]].<ref>{{E}} p.288</ref>

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]].

In his [[seminar]] of 1964-5 [[Lacan]] theorises the [[split|split subject]] in terms of a [[division]] between [[truth]] and [[knowledge]] (''[[savoir]]'').<ref>{{Ec}} p.856</ref>