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 ).
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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 ).
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When it briefly reappears in the " New Introductory Lectures " [ 1933 ], it was as " part " of " this super-ego . . . the vehicle of the ego ideal by which the ego measures itself . . . precipitate of the old picture of the parents, the expression of admiration for the perfection which the child then attributed to them ."
