Lure of Wholeness
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.115
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Lacan on Lagache**
Theoretical move: Against Lagache's personalist, unifying reading of Freud's second topography, Lacan argues that the subject is constitutively split—between imaginary ideal ego and symbolic ego-ideal, between the biological organism and the socially inscribed person—and that "personality" as a unified whole is a lure produced by the mirror illusion, while the subject proper only emerges through alienation in the Other's voice/language.
To talk about personality is thus a lure: it amounts to being taken in by the lure of wholeness, to succumbing to the illusion that a person is or becomes a unified whole.