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→The Falsifying Ego
As with the [[ego]] of the [[mirror phase]], its task is to maintain a false appearance of [[coherence]] and [[completeness]]. Thus [[analysis]] must be mistrustful and subversive of material which stems from the [[ego]] [[domain]].) Any theory of [[psychoanalysis]] which involved the idea of the analyst making an alliance or pact with the [[patient]]'s [[ego]] was thus fundamentally ill-starred. It could only result in a mutual deception.
In this early part of [[Lacan]]'s work, the [[human]] [[subject]] oscillates between two poles: the [[image]], which is [[alienating]], and the [[real]] [[body]], which is in pieces. In his work of the 1930s and early 1940s, [[Lacan]] often attempts to show the presence of these [[images]] of the [[fragmented body]] beneath the classic [[psychoanalytic]] [[complexes]].
(The [[phantasy]] of [[fragmentation]] may be found beneath the more celebrated [[phantasy]] of [[castration]]. (He developed the thesis that ''in [[paranoia]] we can witness a sort of decomposition'' which illustrates clearly the stages in the "normal" constitution of the [[image]] and of [[reality]] as such.
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