The incorporation of the superego

This work makes a journey through the first 12 Lacan seminars, with the idea of explaining which is the constituent operation of the superego. Freud talks of the constitution of this instance from the primary identification; Lacan uses the Freudian terms, introjection and incorporation, as forms of that identification, and gives its particularity to each one. On his first seminars, the superego is linked to the symbolic and to language and the term introjection is used by Lacan to explain its origin. As his teaching advances, Lacan locates the superego in relation to the real, and would link it, to the voice object as well as to the oral object. From then on he would say that the adequate term to describe the birth of the moral instance is incorporation.