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In [[Freud's writings from that point on, the terms agency and system remained close in meaning. However, system tended to be reserved for topographical distinctions]], while agency was used more broadly to refer to an organization being considered from the topographic, dynamic, and economic viewpoints in combination. It reference is because they are considered in this way that the id, the ego, and the superego of the structural theory are referred most often to as agencies rather than as systems. Freud tended to posit the tree "[[agency|agencies as being exclusive: A single phenomenon cannot at the same time belong to the realm ]]" of the [[id and that of the ]], [[ego, for example. By virtue of this very fact, when Freud at the end of his life came to see the opposition between conscious ]] and unconscious as being simply a difference in "quality" of certain psychic processes—as described in "An Outline of Psycho-Analysis" (1940a [1938[superego]])—those two terms were no longer considered as denoting agencies.
In [[Lacan]], one must bear in mind the conceptual architecture idea of metapsychology, the term agency is therefore situated at a level that makes its definition somewhat uncertain. Béla Grunberger thus generated heated controversy when he proposedan "acting upon", in Narcissism: Psychoanalytic Essays (1971/1979)even "insistence, to consider narcissism " as an agency having the same status as the id, the ego, and the superego. Similar controversies arose over in the concept title of the self as developed by Heinz Kohutessay, for example"L'instance de la letter".
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