[Sense of personal identity from a psychoanalytical perspective]

Psychoanalytical perspective on the sense of personal identity displays paradoxical aspects. It increases the knowledge of the Self, particularly of the Unconscious. However, simultaneously, it stresses the gap between the knowledge which we can have of ourselves and what is thought inside us. We successively study the consequences on the sense of identity of the psychoanalytical method, structural models and identification processes. The ego theory and the ambiguities of the self consciousness will be singled out.