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is a substratum with no reality... it is merely a symbol intended to unceasingly recall to our consciousness the artificial character of the process by which the attention places clean-cut states side by side, where actually there is a continuity which unfolds.

(4) psychic states. As a matter of fact, this substratum has no reality... it is merely a symbol intended to recall unceasingly to our consciousness the artificial character of the process by which the attention places clean-cut states side by side, where actually there is a continuity which unfolds. (bergson 'creative evoltuion' 10)

is by no means a unity, though we are forced to regard it as one, but, in the highest degree it is a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities.

...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

is in a relationship with the id resembling that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go. Freud

is not a substance, it is actual only as directed toward something.

The Ego is not a substance, it is actual only as directed toward something... the Ego is known only as the 'substratum' of acts, but Ego and object together have no other name, which encompasses them both, than transcendental consciousness. (kolakowski 'husserl and the search for certitude: 68-9)

The ego is not master in its own house. Sigmund Freud

is not simply a defensive product of the self-preservative reality principle, but is rather a structured sedimentation of lost objects... such lost loves are, in turn, incorporated into the tissue of subjectivity itself.

ln a series of path-breaking essays written on the eve of the First World War, Freud tied the constitution of the ego to mourning, melancholia, and grief. In 'On Narcissism: an introduction' (1914), Freud argued that the ego is not simply a defensive product of the self-preservative reality principle, but is rather a structured sedimentation of lost objects... such loSt loves are, in turn, incorporated into the tissue of subjectivicy itself. The loss of a loved person, says Freud, necessarily involves an introjection of this absent other into the ego. As Freud (1923: 28) explains the link becween loss and ego-formation:

is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. (Alan Watts)

is part of the imaginary whereas the subject is part of the symbolic.

the ego is imaginary, whereas the subject is linked by Lacan to the symbolic

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