In a more critical vein, Lacan also took up Lagache's work on the ego ideal, as a springboard for his own article " Remarque sur le rapport de Daniel Lagache " on the distinction of the ideal ego and the ego ideal '.
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In a more critical vein, Lacan also took up Lagache's work on the ego ideal, as a springboard for his own article " Remarque sur le rapport de Daniel Lagache " on the distinction of the ideal ego and the ego ideal '.
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The crypt is the result of a shameful secret shared' shared with the lost object of love .'Crypts are only constructed when the shameful secret is the love object's doing and when that object also functions for the subject as an ego ideal '.
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The " dissolution " of the Oedipus Complex is then achieved when the child's rivalrous identification with the parental figure is transformed into the pacifying identifications of the Ego ideal which assume both similarity and difference and acknowledge the separateness and autonomy of the other.
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The superego consists of two structures : the conscience, which stores information about what is " bad " and what has been punished, and the ego ideal, which stores information about what is " good " and what one " should " do or be.
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Whereas Freud " seemed to use the terms indiscriminately . . . ideal ego or ego ideal, " in the thirties'Hermann Nunberg, following Freud, had introduced a split into this concept, making the " Ideal-Ich " genetically prior to the " surmoi " ( superego ).
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It is important to realise however, that " the three newly presented entities, the id, the ego and the superego, all had lengthy past histories ( two of them under other names ) " the id as the systematic unconscious, the super-ego as conscience / ego ideal.
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In the former, one assumes that the features of a person innately correspond to their natural inheritance, exemplified by drives and instincts; the latter refers to the assumption that the features of a person continue to change throughout their development and nurturing, exemplified by ego ideals and formative identifications.
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This healthy narcissism depends upon an integrated sense of self that incorporates images of the internalized affirmation of those close to the person and is regulated by the super ego and ego ideal, internal mental structures that assure the person of his worth and that he deserves his own respect.
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Thus, Chasseguet-Smirgel postulates that the ego ideal, by " impl [ ying ] the promise of a return to that primitive state of fusion " ( " The ego ideal " p . 43 ), effectively functions as a " maturation drive " ( " The ego ideal " p . 44 ).
