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Ego
,→Freud's Approaches to the Ego
The former approach places the [[ego]] firmly in the [[libido|libidinal economy]] and links it with the [[pleasure principle]], whereas the latter approach links the [[ego]] to the perception-consciousness system and opposes it to the [[pleasure principle]].
Lacan claims too that the apparent contradiction between these two accounts "disappears when we free ourselves from a naive conception of the reality-principle."<ref>{{L}} 1951b"[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some Reflections on the Ego]]," ''Int. J. Psycho-Anal.'', vol. 34, 1953: p. 11</ref>
Thus the [[reality]] that the [[ego]] mediates with, in the latter account, is in fact made out of the [[pleasure principle]] which the [[ego]] represents in the former account.
