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[[Ego-psychology]] is a [[school]] of [[Sigmund Freud|post-Freudian]] [[psychoanalysis]], derived from [[psychology|child psychology]], [[Freud]]'s [[topology|second topography]] and [[Anna Freud]]'s work on the [[ego]] and its [[defence]]s.
It proceeds on the basis of [[Ego-psychologyFreud]] is a 's [[schoolstructure|structural model]] of the [[Sigmund Freud|post-Freudianmind]] , but is specifically concerned with the role of the [[psychoanalysisego]], derived from in mediating between the conflicting [[psychology|child psychologydemand]], s of the [[Freudinstinctual]]'s [[topology|second topographyid]] and , the [[Anna Freudmoralistic]]'s work on the [[egosuperego]] and its [[defenceexternal]] [[reality]]s.
[[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]].
[[FreudHeinz Hartmann]]'s [[topology|second topography]] of argued that the [[psyche]] provides the basic [[structure|structural model]] from which [[ego-psychology]] proceeds.
[[Ego-psychology]] holds that the [[ego]] has [[autonomous ego|autonomous energy and functions independently]].
[[Heinz HartmannLacan]] argued that the 's [[analyst]], [[Rudolph Loewenstein]], was one of [[ego-psychology]]'s founding fathers.
==History of Ego-Psychology==
and the trend became firmly established in [[Ego-psychologyHeinz Hartmann]] holds that the 's ''[[egoEgo Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation]] has '' (1939), which is now regarded as the foundational text of [[autonomous ego|autonomous energy and functions independently-psychology]].
[[Ego-psychology]] was taken to the [[United States]] by the Austrian analysts who emigrated there in the late 1930s, and since the early 1950s it has been the dominant school of [[psychoanalysis]] not only in the [[United States]] but also in the whole of the [[IPA]].
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.
==Jacques Lacan's Criticism==
[[Lacan]]'s
After [[Lacan]] was expelled from the [[IPA]] in 1953, he was free to voice his criticisms of [[ego-psychology]] openly, and during the rest of his life he developed a sustained and powerful critique.
