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Lacan's Seminar 1: Freud's Papers on Technique

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What's the Difference Between Subject and Ego?

In French, the word for ego is moi, which is me. So there's this interesting opposition between the subject and moi,. The ego is an actually the objective pronoun of, of eye, right? And what he says is that it's not just I, right? Like, again, if you think, you cannot think or analyze a person because your point is to enlarge their ego. He wants like the ego has to be reconciled and reckoned with. This isn't a thing that can be wrapped up in like the length of a television season - basically like you're 18 episodes done.

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