Ego Ideal - Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal (Paperback, New edition)

In this careful exposition of the concept of the ego ideal, the author explores the short cuts that are available to the psyche and traces the longer, more painful path to maturity. She develops in her own way Freud's view that people are forever seeking to regain a lost state of perfection, the state in which they were their own ideal - "primary narcissism." The book includes chapters on the following aspects of the ego ideal: perversion, genitality, being-in-love, groups, sublimation in the creative process, reality testing, and the superego.

General

Imprint:	Free Association Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1985
First published:	December 1985
Authors:	Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
Introduction by:	Christopher Lasch
Translators:	P. Barrows
Dimensions:	220 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-946960-13-2
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-946960-13-5
Barcode:	9780946960132

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