Lacan Seminar II

• Lacan re-reads Freud's theory of the ego, showing how Freud moved beyond his initial focus on the triadic structure of the psyche (id, ego, superego) to conceive of the ego as a fragmented, inconsistent, and intricately woven set of signifiers.
• Freud's conceptualization of the ego was influenced by his understanding of the role of language in human development.