Abstract

LEWKOVITCH, Andréa Di Pietro  and  GRIMBERG, Angélica Bastos de Freitas Rachid. The actuality of Freud's concepts of ideal ego, ego ideal and superego. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.spe, pp. 1189-1198. ISSN 1808-4281.

This article deals with the constitutive identifications of the subject and the superegoic imperative, from the psychoanalytic perspective, with the purpose of examining the pertinence and actuality of this conceptual apparatus. The research centered on the issue of parental narcissism to deal with the role of parents' fantasy in the formation of the ideals, arriving to the conception of the superego while imperative of juissance, dimension which surpasses the parental identifications. We resorted to the autobiography of the tennis player Andre Agassi, presented in the book written at the end of his professional career. He reports that, since childhood, he had been forced by his father to practice tennis, even though he unceasingly declared his hatred for the sport. He could not stop playing tennis and, therefore, became one of the biggest tennis players of history. Considering the limitations imposed by a report that does not constitute a clinical case, the conflict brought by Agassi serves to outline a path regarding the formation of the ideals and the role of the superego in the psychic economy in accordance with the psychoanalytic theory.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Freud; ego; ideal; superego.

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