ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan began to elaborate his position on the ego at an early stage in his theoretical work. He first presented his views in his 1936 paper on the “mirror stage” at the fourteenth congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association in Marienbad. Lacan was concerned that S. Freud’s first theory of the mind, conscious, preconscious, and unconscious, was being neglected in favour of the structural theory of id, ego, and superego. The psychotic suffers a foreclosure of this signifier, whose role is to link all of the other signifiers of the symbolic system to establish the social link. The former orientation implies the view that the psychogenetic origin of mental disorders must be given a central role in personality organisation. The cartel has the function of evaluating the psychoanalytic candidate before becoming a member of the school. A small group of peers reports to a committee of senior analysts recommending the candidate.
