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==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==
In his pre-war writings [[Lacan]] is mainly concerned to establish a distinction between the [[ego-ideal]] and the [[superego]], and does not refer to the [[ideal ego]].
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.
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 position as a man or woman.<ref>(Lacan, 1938: 59-62)</ref>
In his post-war writings [[Lacan pays]] more attention to distinguishing the [[ego-ideal]] from the [[ideal ego]] (Fr. ''moi idÈal'').
Thus in the 1953-4 seminar, he develops the [[optical model]] to distinguish between these two formations.
He argues that the [[ego-ideal]] is a [[symbolic]] [[introjection]], whereas the ideal ego is the source of an imaginary projection.<ref>(see S8, 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]] (Sl, 141) or is a product of that [[identification]] (Lacan, 1957-8).
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 identifications (E, 2).
The [[ideal ego]] is written i(a) in Lacanian [[algebra]], and the [[ego ideal]] is written I(A).
The ideal of perfection that ===Identification with the ego strives to emulate. For Freud, Father===Although both the [[ego-ideal is closely bound up ]] and the [[superego]] are linked with our super-ego. The super-ego is "the vehicle decline of the ego ideal by which the ego measures itself, which it emulates[[Oedipus complex]], and whose demand for ever greater perfection it strives to fulfil" ("New Introductory Lectures" 22.65). Given both are products of [[identification]] with the intimate connection [[father]], [[Lacan]] argues that they [[represent]] different aspects of the super-ego [[father]]'s [[dual]] [[role]]. ===Repression and Sublimation===The [[superego]] is an [[unconscious]] [[agency]] whose function is to [[repression|repress]] [[sexuality|sexual]] [[desire]] for the Oedipus complex[[mother]], whereas the [[ego-ideal is likely "the precipitate of the old picture of the parents, the expression of admiration for ]] exerts a [[conscious]] pressure towards [[sublimation]] and provides the perfection coordinates which enable the child then attributed [[subject]] to them" ("New Introductory Lectures" 22take up a [[sexual difference|sexual position]] as a [[man]] or [[woman]].65)<ref>{{L}} ''[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Les complexes familiaux dans la formation de l'individu. It is also tied up with childhood narcissism (the belief in oneEssai d'analyse d'une fonction en psychologie]]''s own perfection), which in adulthood can take as its substitute the perfection of the ego[[Paris]]: Navarin, 1984. p. 59-ideal.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"]] (Lacan[[Fr]]. ''[[moi idéal]]''):. Thus in the 1953-4 [[seminar]], he develops the [[optical model]] to distinguish between these two [[formation]]s.  Lacan makes a distinction between the "ideal ego" ===Introjection and Projection===He argues that the "[[ego -ideal]] is a [[symbolic]] [[introjection]]," whereas the [[ideal ego]] is the former source of which he associates with the an [[imaginary order, the latter of which he associates with the symbolic order]] [[projection]].<ref>{{S8}} p. Lacan's "414</ref> ===Symbolic===The [[ego-ideal ego" ]] is the [[signifier]] operating as [[idealism|ideal ]], an internalized plan of perfection that the ego strives to emulate; it first affected [[law]], the [[guide]] governing the [[subject when he saw himself ]]'s [[position]] in a mirror during the mirror stage[[symbolic]] [[order]], which occurs around 6-18 months of age and hence anticipates secondary (see the Lacan module on psychosexual development[[Oedipal]])[[identification]] or is a product of that [[identification]]. Seeing that image of oneself established a discord between <ref>{{S1}} p. 141</ref> <!--But for [[The Subject|the idealizing image in the mirror (boundedsubject]] to come into [[being]], whole, complete) and one must find "a guide beyond [[the chaotic reality of the one's body between 6-18 monthsimaginary]], thus setting up on the logic level of [[the imaginary's fantasy construction that would dominate symbolic]] plane. . . . This guide governing [[The Subject|the subject's psychic life ever after. For Lacan, ]] is the ego-[[ideal]]"(1988a, p. 141). The ego-ideal," by contrastaccording to Lacan, is when the subject looks at himself as if from [[Other]] (caregiver) [[speaking]]. From that ideal point; to look at oneself from that point of perfection on, the [[symbolic order]] ([[language]]) dominates over the [[imaginary order]], which is reduced to see one's life as vain and useless. being a decoy-->===Imaginary===The effect[[ideal ego]], thenon the other hand, originates in the [[specular image]] of the [[mirror stage]]; it is to invert one's "normal" lifea promise of [[future]] [[dialectic|synthesis]] towards which the [[ego]] tends, to see it as suddenly repulsivethe [[illusion]] of [[autonomy|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>.
==Lacanian Algebra==The concept of the [[ideal ego ideal appeared for the first time in Sigmund Freud]] is written '''s "On Narcissism: An Introduction" <i>i(1914ca). The ego ideal takes the place of the narcissism lost during childhood </i>''' in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]], and promises the possible realization of narcissism in the future. Freud's concept of the [[ego ideal provided support for other, earlier concepts, such as moral conscience, censorship, and self-esteem, and made possible an original understanding of the formation of a mass movement and its relationship to a leader ]] is written '''I(1921cA)'''.
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Algebra]]
* [[Desire]]
* [[Dual relation]]
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* [[Ego]]
* [[Father]]
* [[Identification]]
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* [[Imaginary]]
* [[Introjection]]
* [[Optical model]]
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* [[Projection]]
* [[Repression]]
* [[Subject]]
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* [[Sublimation]]
* [[Superego]]
* [[Symbolic]]
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== References ==
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