Anxious Ego Defense
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Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing' · Adrian Johnston · p.162
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Theoretical move: The passage argues that the Lacanian ego is constitutively paranoid, rivalrous, and regressive—structured by the mirror stage, the superego/ego-ideal dynamic, and the Master/Slave dialectic—and that ego-psychological analysis, by placing ego against ego in a transferential dyad, reproduces and aggravates this imaginary passion rather than dissolving it, producing only dead-end outcomes.
the ego's auto-policing 'functions of mastery' (fonctions de maîtrise)…command adherence to an illusory image of self-possessed unity…Spurred by anxious resistance to the unconscious