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Lacan's powerful critique has meant that few people now accept uncritically the claims of ego-psychology to identify itself as 'classical psychoanalysis'.
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An important strand within post-Freudian psychoanalysis, derived mainly from Freud's second topography and Anna Freud's work on the ego and its defences.
The principal theorists of ego-psychology are Heinz Hartmann, Rudolf Loewenstein and Ernst Kris.
Ego-psychology holds that there exist withint he ego of the child the innaate elements of a conflict-free sphere that can become autonomous vis-a-vis both the superego and the id.
The conflict-free sphere neutralizes the [[drive]] and harnesses them to the task of adaptation to the environment, adaptation being defined in terms of biological maturation and socialization.
Treatment tends to be based on the establishment of a therapeutic alliance in which tthe patient identifies with the strong ego of the analyst.
the developmental theory of ego-psychology .....
ego-psychology is condemend by lacan for reducing the distinguished practice ofpsychoanalysis to a "theology of free enterprise" and "a label suitable to the 'americna way of life.' (1974)
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