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[[beautiful soul]] (belle ‚me)
The beautiful soul (Ger. schˆne Seele) is a [[stage]] in the [[dialectic]] of [[self]]-[[consciousness]] which Hegel describes in the [[Phenomenology]] of Spirit (Hegel, 1807). 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 ‚me who does not recognise his very own raison d'Ítre in the disorder that he denounces in the world' (E, 70). In a more extreme way, the beautiful soul also illustrates the [[structure]] of [[paranoiac]] [[misrecognition]] (see M…CONNAISSANCEM…[[Connaissance|CONNAISSANCE]]) (Ec, 172-3).
The [[concept]] of the beautiful soul illustrates the way that neurotics often deny their own [[responsibility]] for what is going on around [[them]] (see AcT). The [[ethics]] of [[psychoanalysis]] enjoin analysands to recognise their own part in their sufferings. Thus when [[Dora]] complains [[about]] [[being]] treated as an [[object]] of [[exchange]] by the men around her, [[Freud]]'s first [[intervention]] is to confront her with her own complicity in this exchange (Ec, 218-19; see Freud, 1905e).
