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The concept of [[adaptation]] is a [[biology|biological]] [[:category:concepts|concept]].
==Ego-Psychology==
[[Ego-Psychology]] applies the [[biological]] concept of [[adaptation]] to [[psychoanalysis]].
He takes this view for several reasons:
Reality is not a simple, objective thing to which the ego must adapt, but is itself a product of the ego's fictional misrepresentations and projections.
The task of [[psychoanalysis]] is rather to subvert the [[illusory]] sense of [[adaptation]], since this blocks access to the [[unconscious]].
==Two==2. To set [[adaptation]] as the [[aim]] of the [[treatment]] is to turn the [[analyst]] into the arbiter of the [[patient]]'s [[adaptation]].
The [[analyst]]'s own "relation to reality thus goes without saying."<ref>{{E}} p.230</ref>
[[reality]] onto the [[patient]]; this is not [[psychoanalysis]] but [[suggestion]].
Any attempt to regain [[harmony]] with [[nature]] overlooks the essentially excessive [[drive]] potential summed up in the [[death drive]].
Human beings are essentially maladaptive.
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[[Lacan]] argues that the stress put by [[ego-psychology]] on the [[adaptation]] of the [[patient]] to [[reality]] reduces [[psychoanalysis]] to an instrument of social control and conformity.
He sees this as a complete betrayal of [[psychoanalysis]], which he regards as an essentially subversive practice.
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[[Lacan]] regards it as significant that the [[adaptation]] theme was developed by the European psychoanalysts who had emigrated to the USA in the late 1930s.
These analysts felt not only that they had to adapt to life in the USA, but also that they ahd to adapt psychoanalysis to American tastes (.<ref>{{E, }} p.115).</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Biology]]
* [[Gap]]
* [[Suggestion]]
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