The two positions are:
A) Sigmund Freud
Wo Es war; soll Ich warden (GW XV p86),
Where it (id) was; I (ego) must come to be (SE XXII p80)[i],
B) St John’s Gospel, The Bible.
…, so that where I (Other) am, there you (subject) may be also.[ii]
Gospel according to St John, Chapter 14, Verse 1,
So, connections or overlaps are intriguing. How and if are these two related?
The words in brackets in the Freud phrase are the usual translation and in the Biblical one, suggestions in brackets are added to the text.
Both describe a meeting point or even an overlap:
Freud’s has a jolt in the middle at the point of the semicolon. What comes to be has to be connected or emerge out of what was.
St John’s suggests the meeting point is optional-the use of ‘may’. It is possible to be joined to the I (Other) and it is a choice. The nature of the join may vary from the subject being completely subsumed in the Other to an uncertain overlap.
Tentative conclusions
If there is no connection between I-Other & you-subject then probably the position as given by Freud comes automatically into place.
Alternatively, if the I-Ego does not come to be, then there can be no joining with the Other (I).
So playing with connections as did Jacques Lacan gives us two position, one which is fundamental and the other which is a choice, one of many.
[i] Nevertheless it may be admitted that the therapeutic efforts of psycho-analysis have chosen a similar line of approach. Its intention is, indeed, to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the super-ego, to widen its field of perception and enlarge its organization, so that it can appropriate fresh portions of the id. Where id was, there ego shall be. It is a work of culture – not unlike the draining of the Zuider Zee.
In James Strachey’s translation, Lecture XXXI (31) – The Dissection of the Psychical Personality (1932), SE XXII p80, from New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis : 1932 (Published 1933) : Sigmund Freud
Information at this site /3 Sigmund Freud (19330101 or 19320616)
Or /3 Sigmund Freud (Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts)
or Wo Es war; soll Ich warden (3 Sigmund Freud/13000000 Quotations from Sigmund Freud)
[ii] Jesus said to his disciples, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I (Other) am, there you (subject) may be also.
Gospel according to St John, Chapter 14, Verse 1,