1.0 link 56104 <![CDATA[Falling Ever Upwards With Lee Siegel]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-mclemee/falling-ever-upwards-with_b_56104.html "A common reaction to psychological trauma is the construction of what psychologists call the 'ego-ideal,' a kind of counterself, grand, inflated, magnificent, free from imperfections, and impervious to the kind of injury that created it in the first place."

-- Lee Siegel, Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television (Basic Books, 2007)

This is, of course, wrong.

The term "ego-ideal" refers to part of the superego that concentrates all the highest standards and agonizing demands that one has introjected from parents, the culture, recognized...

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