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not simply passively dependent while attached but in various ways longs for the fulfillment that such attachment promises.

In the view of Freud, the process of splitting and ego formation always carry pathological potential because the "boundary lines between the ego and the external world [can] become uncertain or . . . actually drawn incorrectly" (13). Lacan, who not infrequently refers to Freud, might not disagree with that, but in the passage cited he is more conc

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