Keywords
Ego formation, metapsychology, subject naturalization, self-preservation drives, Ego drives.
Abstract
Freud’s notion of the subject has been misunderstood by all trends in psychoanalysis that followed his death; from Hartmann’s Ego Psychology to Lacan’s «alienated Ego», no theory
has been able to gather and highlight the Kantian milestones behind his notion: to endow the subject’s psychological function with spatial qualities, and to lay objective
naturalist foundations for the dynamics governing its formation, in relation to fulfilling life’s primary needs. The genesis of the subject’s identity occurs largely thanks to the role
that self-preservation drives play in this process.