Psychoanalysis Of Freud And Lacan

Lacan’s psychoanalysis is concerned above all with the relation between the self and the other. It is a deep and searching analysis in all its details of the process of identity formation and the creation of the image of oneself as part of the formation of the image of the other. A number of ideas of Freud form part of the syntax of lacan’s ideas. These ideas of psychoanalysis and various other kinds of identity theory, aim at a deep analysis of the innde drives of the human psyche. These are the life drive and the death drive, drives and the psyche which they constitute are held to be made up of a number of levels. These are the conscious the semi conscious and the unconscious level, the level of pure instinct. These different levels at which

This can be generalized into the ideas of commodity fetishism and how advertising plays on this. He also incorporates Melanie Klein’s ideas of the primordial enclosure and the mother image, related to the notion of the object relation. Lacan posits the idea of the unconscious having strong linguistic like components. One’s perceived appearance and emotional experience are crucial to the formation of the I as found in psychoanalysis. The Ego is the result of conflict and fragmentation in the mirror image. The body is uncoordinated and fragmented while the image is whole, the subject strives to attain the position of the image and this is the source of tension. The projection of the ego is the little other while the adult is the one outside or the big other. It is interesting and exciting to imagine how depth psychology as applied to the childhood subject can throw light through hidden incidents on the character formation of the adult. We are losing the post colonial race,,,…the status quo is