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"[[ego-ideal]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[{{Top}}idéal du moi]]''){{Bottom}}

==Sigmund Freud====Ego--Ideal, Ideal Ego and Superego==In [[Freud]]'s writings , it is difficult to discern any systematic [[distinction ]] between the [[three ]] related [[terms ]] "[[ego-ideal]]" (''[[Ich-ideal]]''), "[[ideal ego]]" (''[[Ideal Ich]]''), and [[superego]] (''[[Superego|Über-Ich]]''), although neither are the terms simply used interchangeably.

==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan]], however, argues that these three '"[[ego-ideal|formations of the ego' ]]" are each quite distinct [[concepts ]] which must not be confused with one [[another]].

==Ego--Ideal and Superego==

===Identification with the Father===Although both the [[ego-ideal]] and the [[superego]] are linked with the decline of the [[Oedipus complex]], and both are products of [[identification]] with the [[father]], [[Lacan]] argues that they [[represent ]] different aspects of the [[father]]'s [[dual ]] [[role]].

===Repression and Sublimation===The [[superego]] is an [[unconscious]] [[agency]] whose function is to [[repression|repress]] [[sexuality|sexual]] [[desire]] for the [[mother]], whereas the [[ego-ideal]] exerts a [[conscious]] pressure towards [[sublimation]] and provides the coordinates which enable the [[subject]] to take up a [[sexual difference|sexual position ]] as a [[man]] or [[woman]].<ref>{{L}} 1938''[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Les complexes familiaux dans la formation de l'individu. Essai d'analyse d'une fonction en psychologie]]'', [[Paris]]: Navarin, 1984. p. 59-62)</ref>

==Ego-Ideal and the Ideal Ego==In his post-war writings [[Lacan]] pays more attention to distinguishing the [[ego-ideal]] from the [[ideal ego]] ([[Fr]]. ''[[moi idéal]]''). Thus in the 1953-4 [[seminar]], he develops the [[optical model]] to distinguish between these two [[formation]]s.

In his post===Introjection and Projection===He argues that the [[ego-war writings ideal]] is a [[Lacansymbolic]] pays more attention to distinguishing the [[ego-idealintrojection]] from , whereas the [[ideal ego]] (is the source of an [[Frimaginary]]. ''[[moi idéalprojection]]''). <ref>{{S8}} p. 414</ref>

Thus ===Symbolic===The [[ego-ideal]] is the [[signifier]] operating as [[idealism|ideal]], an internalized plan of the [[law]], the [[guide]] governing the [[subject]]'s [[position]] in the 1953-4 [[seminarsymbolic]] [[order]], he develops the and hence anticipates secondary ([[Oedipal]]) [[identification]] or is a product of that [[optical modelidentification]] to distinguish between these two formations. <ref>{{S1}} p. 141</ref>

He argues that <!--But for [[The Subject|the subject]] to come into [[being]], one must find "a guide beyond [[the imaginary]], on the level of [[the symbolic]] plane. . . . This guide governing [[The Subject|the subject]] is the ego-[[ideal]] " (1988a, p. 141). The ego-ideal, according to Lacan, is a the [[Other]] (caregiver) [[speaking]]. From that point on, the [[symbolicorder]] ([[language]] ) dominates over the [[introjectionimaginary order]], whereas the which is reduced to being a decoy-->===Imaginary===The [[ideal ego]] , on the other hand, originates in the [[specular image]] of the [[mirror stage]]; it is a promise of [[future]] [[dialectic|synthesis]] towards which the [[ego]] tends, the source [[illusion]] of an [[imaginaryautonomy|unity]] on which the [[projectionego]]is built.<ref>{{S8}} p.414)</ref>

The [[ego-ideal]] is the [[signifier]] operating as ideal, an internalised plan of the [[law]], the guide governing the [[subject]]'s position in the [[symbolic]] [[order]], and hence anticipates secondary ([[Oedipal]]) [[identification]] or is a product of that [[identification]].<ref>{{S1}} p.141; {{L}} 1957-8</ref> The [[ideal ego]], on the other hand, originates in the [[specular image]] of the [[mirror stage]]; it is a promise of future synthesis towards which the [[ego]] tends, the [[illusion]] of unity on which the [[ego]] is built. The [[ideal ego]] always accompanies the [[ego]], as an ever-[[present ]] attempt to regain the omnipotence of the [[preoedipal]] [[dual relation]].  Though formed in [[primary identification]], the [[ideal ego]] continues to play a role as the source of all [[secondary identification]]s.<ref>{{E}} p.2</ref>.

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