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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.90
JACQUES LACAN ECRITS > *The Truth of Psychology and the Psychology of Truth* 79 > *The Object of Psychology Is Defined in Essentially Relativistic Terms*
Theoretical move: The passage argues that psychoanalytic concepts—particularly identification, the complex, imago, and libido—constitute a genuinely relativistic (rather than merely subjective) psychological science, and distinguishes two uses of libido (energetic vs. substantialist) to show how analytic theory can advance toward positive knowledge of psychical reality.
These fundamental psychical relations have been revealed in analytic experience and defined by analytic theory with the term 'complexes.' We should see in this term the most concrete, fruitful concept that has been contributed to the study of human behavior, as opposed to the concept of instinct.