Ideals

Abstract

This paper proposes a reflection on the intricate and consubstantial relation between the ideal ego and the ego ideal. In this sense, the ideal will be a component which will always be found in ego function and which will determine, in turn, the nuances of the relationship with the other in the process of subjectivization which is constantly working between alienation and separation.
The ego is an effect of the other and his sexuality (unconscious wish), which find shape in an image that identifies it. Narcissism, in its structural perspective, is necessarily implied in all these vicissitudes of the ideal. Working on the mirror-like, with its illusory, narcissistic, aspirations, which never abandon the subject and contribute to the strength of the Imaginary, to the
quality of symbolic matrix which the imprint of the wish of the other constitutes for the life of the subject, we face the simultaneity of constitution and loss in order to cover the idea of symbolization in every process of subjectivization, where identification is implied. The present paper tries to underline the importance of logical time, where the past is present, and where the desiring character of the phantasy, which anticipates and realizes the future, defines the transferential profiles (spacetime telescoping process which is characteristic of the unconscious). It is advanced as a hypothesis that the structuring event of the pair ego idealideal ego implies the idea that there is no possible establishment of the ideal ego unless we can count on the Symbolic register of the ego ideal. In a brief clinical vignette of a patient from Freud, there is an attempt to exemplify the strength of the ideal which contributes to this initial dimension of analysis where the position of the analyst in the place of the ego ideal is in play