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[[Lacan]] argues that this distinction can be traced back to [[Freud]]:
<blockquote>"[Freud] wrote ''Das Ich und das Es'' in order to maintain this fundamental distinction between the true subject of the unconscious and the ego as constituted in its nucleus by a series of alienating identifications.<ref>{{E}} p.128</ref></blockquote>
Although [[psychoanalytic treatment]] has powerful effects on the [[ego]], it is the [[subject]], and not the [[ego]], on which [[psychoanalysis]] primarily operates.
