What makes the psyche is the belief that there is a perspective outside the psyche. That is, in so far as the ego's predicament is understood as psychological there is the sense of a position external to the psyche from which it can be known, or understood, or merely more or less imperfectly predicted and controlled. The point here is the constitutive role of the ego's belief in mastery, and its attitude to this putative mastery. Does it represent its attainable ideal or its unattainable irony? Either choice enters you onto a long and scenic path, including multiple byways between the two. However diverse the resulting projects, the core theory is the same.  Isn't this the very conviction behind the unreasonable effectiveness of ideology, that there is someone, or some system that knows? Now, how do you begin to frame the alternative to this?