Ego Ideal - Is There an Ideal Ego?
Posted in Observations on Jul 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Oh, the ego ideal! What misery this little psychodynamic bug-a-boo causes us.
What is ego ideal?
Early on, Freud used both expressions ‘ideal ego‘ and ‘ego ideal’. Later, Freud (1921), (1923) abandoned the use of ‘ideal ego’ using the term ‘ego ideal’ which then became integrated into the term ’super-ego’.
The ego ideal is the standard which the [...]
