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The '[[beautiful soul]]' (Fr.''belle âme'', Ger. ''schöne Seele'') is a stage in the [[dialectic]] of [[self-consciousness ]] which [[Hegel]] describes in the ''[[Phenomenology of Spirit]]''.<ref>(Hegel, 1807)</ref>
The [[beautiful soul]] projects its own disorder onto the world and attempts to cure this disorder by imposing 'the law of the heart' on everyone else.
For [[Lacan]], the [[beautiful soul]] is a perfect [[metaphor]] for the [[ego]]; "the ego of modern man ... has taken on its form in the dialectical impasse of the ''belle âme'' who does not recognise his very own ''raison d'être'' in the disorder that he denounces in the world."<ref>(E, 70)</ref>
