See also: Me (homonymy)

In Psychoanalysis, the Me (German: ich) is one of the authorities of the personality, precisely that which would be liked to represent the whole of the person like plain. In a general way, the Représentation of Ego is called the Ego.

Second topics

See also: Second topics

In the second topics, it Me to the that is opposed, irrational authority, Désir S Inconscients which is souvant destroying, like with the Surmoi, authority which judges severely. The super-ego is constituted in more early childhood, when interdicts social and parental start to be interiorized, and to oppose a censure to the desires. The super-ego is the part of inconsient which is useful like referee between that and it me.

The moïque authority is carrying multiple functions; it has the personality as unified, linked, coherent, and the representations irreconcilable with this assertion will be cause of displeasure. Ego occupies a finally ambiguous position: he affirms himself like the whole of the subject, whereas escapes to him certain shares from the personality, and that, nevertheless, Me is not only conscious for it.

Functions of ego

Ego is set up in order to defer instinctual satisfaction. It makes it possible to pass from the Pleasure principle to the Principle of reality, these particularly heterogeneous functions thus extending to the representation.

The avoid-excitation is a function of Ego. It enables him to attenuate or detoxicate what comes from the internal impulses and what arrives of the outside, reality. It acts like a barrier of contact.

Formation of Ego

Freudien point of view of

Freud considers two essential times: ego pleasure, pastiche in which the newborn recognizes himself that in the pleasant one, allotting the displeasure outside, with the other. The second time is that of Ego reality, marking an authority more honest, able to make the sorting between inside and outside.

Formation of Ego according to Hinerschied Antoine

Ego develops in the first months of the life. Melanie Klein located it about the fourth month: its birth corresponds in its theory to the access to the Depressive position. There is murder (imaginary) object and mourning of this object: ego is born from a depression.

Ego is the authority which distinguishes internal reality and external reality. At the origin, the infant discover his/her mother like total Objet, and not fragments dispersed without coherence.

Ego will be altered throughout the life, by processes of Introjection and Projection, i.e. there will be the life during a work of appropriation and rejection, by the means of identifications, like the Projective identification.

Ego according to Carl Gustav Jung

For Jung me is not to it psychic topics, but much more simply “the center of the field of conscience”. It is thus a Complexe which has of private individual only the fact of occupying this center of the field of conscience. The constitution of this complex rests on the dynamism of the Archétype of the Oneself.

Formation of Ego according to Jacques Lacan

Ego, according to Lacan, is an authority of the imaginary register: it is alienation even. The subject is seen in Ego, which is only one freeze frame of the function subject.

Its formation implies a first triangulation, between the mother, the child and the object of the lack, all three imaginary. The child is assujet , it is fixed with his mother, and is identified with the imaginary phallus. The child will come from there to recognize himself elsewhere, in the Ego ideal , symbolic system. But it Me will remain authority of alienation, of imaginary collecting.

Me-skin of Anzieu

The Egopsychology

See too

• Super-ego
• that

Related articles

• It me in literature
• Narcissism, Self-centredness, Megalomania, Ego ideal Selfishness

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