NEW332H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ego Ideal, Impermanence, Orgasm
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If it does not match, and we experience the inner disappointment, we will keep searching to the end of our lives. Whatever we feel will satisfy the ego ideal is a substitute of one"s original narcissism (the ideal ego). Ego ideal: a fantasy of what one can become. Both based on the illusory perfection, happiness and bliss that existed at the beginning of life and which haunts us. Ego ideal: more realistic (strive after goals set out by society/parents/superego) Ideal ego: more idealistic (strive after goal that is recollected and impossible to attain again, except in fantasy of a perfect self) Classical psychoanalysis theory sees meditation and mystical practices as an effort to merge ego and ego ideal/future by regressing to the ideal ego/past/oceanic feeling. Meditation is a quick way to satisfy the ego ideal and a regression to infantile narcissistic since we cannot return to ideal ego.
