Alienação ou não: o ideal do eu na constituição do sujeito à luz da psicanálise

Abstract

At birth, the baby only has instincts that seek satisfaction. That condition causes the baby to relate to another human being, subjecting himself to field of the Other to guarantee the maintenance of life. Along this path, this Other will fill the baby with signifiers; through sayings and expectations, he will say who he is and as he is, projecting dreams, desires and his ideal self onto the baby. This investment narcissism of the parents is fundamental to make room for the baby that arrives and, later, insert it into the culture. Then, through language, the baby identifies with the object desire of the other and seeking to be them, forming their ideal self. However, this ideal self does not corresponds to the true self, but rather to an ideal of another. Therefore, the alienation, which was necessary to save the baby from great helplessness, it needs to be overcome so that the subject emerges, being necessary to symbolically separate itself from the Other in order to constitute its own desire. In this sense, the present research results from a bibliographical review, taking as reference the works of Freud and Lacan, and seeks to present how the constitution of the subject in psychoanalysis and the place of the parental ideal in this movement, discussing the processes, called by Lacan, of alienation and separation, and making some considerations regarding the impacts at the time of the disagreement narcissistic structural