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The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal - Chasseguet-Smirgel, Janine, and Barrows, Paul (Translated by), and Lasch, Christopher (Introduction by)
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In this careful exposition of the concept of the ego ideal, the author explores the short cuts that are available to the psyche and traces the longer, more painful path to maturity. She develops in her own way Freud's view that people are forever seeking to regain a lost state of perfection, the state in which they were their own ideal - "primary n

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The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal 1985, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780393019711

American edition

Hardcover

The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal 1985, Free Association Books, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780946960132

French

Trade paperback