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Although [[Lacan]] does not believe that the modern western concept of the [[ego]] was invented by [[Descartes]] or by any other [[individual]], he argues that it was born in the same era in which [[Descartes]] was writing (the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth century), and is particularly clearly expressed by [[Descartes]].<ref>{{S2}} pp. 6-7</ref>
Thus, although this concept of the [[ego]] seems so [[nature|natural]] and [[time|eternal]] to western man today, it is in fact a relatively recent [[culture|cultural construct]]; its [[time|eternal]]-[[nature|natural]] appearance is in fact an [[illusion]] produced by [[punctuation|retroaction[[]].<ref>{{S2}} p. 4-5</ref>
==Psychoanalysis==
