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Despite the complexity of [[Freud]]'s formulations on the [[ego]], [[Lacan]] discerns two main approaches to the [[ego]] in [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]], and points out that they are apparently contradictory.
On the one hand, in the context of the theory of [[narcissism]], "the ego takes sides against the object", whereas on the other hand, in the context of the so-called "[[ego|structural model]]", "the ego takes sides with the object."<ref>{{L}} 1951b"[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some Reflections on the Ego]]," ''Int. J. Psycho-Anal.'', vol. 34, 1953: p. 11</ref>
The former approach places the [[ego]] firmly in the [[libido|libidinal economy]] and links it with the [[pleasure principle]], whereas the latter approach links the [[ego]] to the perception-consciousness system and opposes it to the [[pleasure principle]].
