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[[Splitting ]] is a [[form ]] of dissociation that results from a [[conflict ]] that can [[affect ]] the ego ([[splitting of the ego]]) or its [[objects ]] (splitting of the [[object]]). It is a very general intrapsychic [[process ]] to the extent that it also forms the basis of the capacity in the [[psychic ]] [[apparatus ]] for dividing itself into systems (cf. first [[topography]]: [[unconscious]], [[preconscious]], [[conscious]]) and into [[agencies ]] (cf. [[second topography]]: id, ego, [[superego]]).The term "splitting" has some long-established uses in [[psychiatry ]] and goes back to the general [[concept ]] of a...

The term "splitting of the ego" refers to a [[division ]] of the ego into two coexisting parts, one of which [[satisfies ]] [[instinctual ]] [[demands ]] while the [[other ]] heeds the objection, in the shape of a [[symptom]], which [[reality ]] raises to that [[satisfaction]]. This process, which [[Freud ]] described as a "ruse," constitutes a temporary response to the conflict, but the price paid is an inner rent in the ego that can only get worse with [[time]].For Freud the most striking [[instance ]] of the splitting of the ego was to be observed in the [[perversion ]] of [[fetishism]], but it...

"Splitting" (in [[French]], "[[refente]]") is one of the translations Jacques [[Lacan ]] proposed for the [[German ]] "[[Spaltung]]" when he discussed how the [[subject ]] is [[divided ]] in subordination to the [[signifier]].In 1958, at the end of Les [[formations ]] de l'[[inconscient ]] (1998), book 5 of his [[seminar]], Lacan introduced the written [[symbol ]] to refer to the effects of the signifier on the subject. He proposed the French term "refente" some time later to translate the [[English ]] term "splitting," itself a [[translation ]] of the term employed by Freud, "Spaltung,"...