Ideal of the Ego - Ideal I: Split, Conflict, Continuity
By Irimia Corneliu.
1 Jul, 2007
Summary:
The condition of being in love, constant oscillation between outmost happiness and pure suffering is a "combination of sexuality and ideals" (Julia Kristeva). The term of „ideal" inevitably leads to a third: narcissism. The ideal of the ego makes the connection between the development of narcissism and the searching of the object as the „other". During this process, narcissism, as creative matter, changes its nature: from a closing inside sign, it becomes, due to the other's idealization, source and drive of objectified love.
The condition of being in love, constant oscillation between outmost happiness and pure suffering is a "combination of sexuality and ideals" (Julia Kristeva). The term of „ideal" inevitably leads to a third: narcissism. The ideal of the ego makes the connection between the development of narcissism and the searching of the object as the „other". During this process, narcissism, as creative matter, changes its nature: from a closing inside sign, it becomes, due to the other's idealization, source and drive of objectified love.
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