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split (refente) Freud talks about the 'splitting of the ego' (Ger. Ich-

Lacan amplifies [[Freud]] talks about the concept "splitting of Spaltung the ego" (which he prefers to translate by the  term refente; see S8Ger. ''Ich-spaltung'', 144Fr. ''clivage du moi'') to designate not as a process unique to , observable in [[fetishism or ]] and [[psychosis but a general characteristic of subjectity itself; the SUBJECT Can neVer be anything other than divided]], split, alienated from himself (see ALIENATION). The split is irreducible, can never be healed; there is no possibility of synthesis.  The split or divided subject is symbolised whereby two contradictory attitudes to reality come to exist side by side in the BAR which strikes through the S to produce the barred subject, S (see E, 288). The split denotes the impossibility of the ideal of a fully present self-consciousness[[ego]]; the subject will  never know himself completely, but will always be cut off from his own knowledge. It thus indicates the presence those of the unconscious, acceptance and is an effect of the signifier. The subject is split by the very fact that he is a speaking being (E, 269), since speech divides the subject of the ENUNCIATION from the subject of the statement[[disavowal]]. In his seminar of 1964-5 Lacan theorises the split subject in  terms of a division between truth and knowledge (savoir) <ref>(see EcFreud, 8561940b).</ref>

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