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The term 'autonomous ego' was coined by the proponents of EGO-PSYCHOLOGY. According to the proponents of ego-psychology, the EGo becomes autonomous by achieving      a harmonious balance between its primitive drives and the dictates of reality. The autonomous ego is thus synomymous with 'the strong ego', 'the well-adapted ego', 'the healthy ego'. Psychoanalysis was conceived of by the proponents of ego-psychology as the process of helping the analysand's ego to become autonomous: this was supposed to be achieved by the identification of the analysand with the strong ego of the analyst.
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Lacan is very critical of the concept of the autonomous ego (see E, 306-7). He argues that the ego is not free but determined by the symbolic order. The autonomy of the ego is simply a narcissistic illusion of mastery. It is the symbolic order, and not the ego, which enjoys autonomy.
 
 
  nents of EGO-PSYCHOLOGY. According to the proponents of ego-psychology, the
 
 
 
  EGo becomes autonomous by achieving      a harmonious balance between its
 
 
 
primitive drives and the dictates of reality. The autonomous ego is thus
 
 
 
synomymous with 'the strong ego', 'the well-adapted ego', 'the healthy
 
 
 
ego'. Psychoanalysis was conceived of by the proponents of ego-psychology
 
 
 
as the process of helping the analysand's ego to become autonomous: this was
 
 
 
supposed to be achieved by the identification of the analysand with the strong
 
 
 
ego of the analyst.
 
 
 
      Lacan is very critical of the concept of the autonomous ego (see E, 306-7).
 
 
 
He argues that the ego is not free but determined by the symbolic order. The
 
 
 
autonomy of the ego is simply a narcissistic illusion of mastery. It is the
 
 
 
symbolic order, and not the ego, which enjoys autonomy.
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
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Revision as of 08:38, 26 April 2006

The term 'autonomous ego' was coined by the proponents of EGO-PSYCHOLOGY. According to the proponents of ego-psychology, the EGo becomes autonomous by achieving a harmonious balance between its primitive drives and the dictates of reality. The autonomous ego is thus synomymous with 'the strong ego', 'the well-adapted ego', 'the healthy ego'. Psychoanalysis was conceived of by the proponents of ego-psychology as the process of helping the analysand's ego to become autonomous: this was supposed to be achieved by the identification of the analysand with the strong ego of the analyst. Lacan is very critical of the concept of the autonomous ego (see E, 306-7). He argues that the ego is not free but determined by the symbolic order. The autonomy of the ego is simply a narcissistic illusion of mastery. It is the symbolic order, and not the ego, which enjoys autonomy.

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