Saturday, August 3, 2013

The Ego Ideal: Forms of Perfection (cont.)

After recent research I've been had to re-tool my model a little.

The omnipotence of wishes at the oral stage is separate from what I mentioned as the artist creating possible worlds. The world is the back-drop for the oral stage in which the will first appears as wish. It is in the previous part-object stage that world appears with the mnemic trace and the possible hallucination of the breast. What is added at the oral stage is time.

Again, the infant doesn't have the cognition to grasp these complicated ideas. Rather the libidinal ties it forms are retroactively signified from the phallic stage in relation to the magnitude of the more primitive anxiety.  

The phallic father-substitutes are those who have social status that follows success as measured in wealth, membership to prestigious organizations, degrees, etc.  

The phallic-narcissist opposes being under a father-substitute and presents himself as being more successful or having more prestige than father substitutes. 

The genital or phallic-trito stage is the internalization of the phallic father and recreation of his power among being the lower generations through being ethical.

The genital or phallic-trito narcissist is between being ethical and being above ethics. He can react to ethics or present himself as being the master of ethics.


The anal father-substitutes are those who have the status of being pillars of society as measured as being in the highest positions of power within a culture (president, dictator, celebrated scientists or artists, etc.) 

The anal-narcissist opposes being under a father-substitute and presents himself as being a leader of his own group, proponent of a rival paradigm of thought or art movement, that is more foundational (cult leader, creator of a new scientific model, etc.)

The urethral or anal-trito stage is the internalization of the anal father and recreation of his power among the lower generations through doing acts. 

The urethral or anal-trito narcissist is between being efficient in organizing and being above efficiency. He can react to efficiency or present himself as the master of efficiency. 


The oral father-substitute is time and the laws under which time is expressed (linear flow of time, gravity, etc.)

The oral-narcissist opposes being under the father-substitute and presents himself as having power that opposes time and its laws. This manifests in the omnipotence of wishes that are expressed in 'the secret', the 'force' in Star Wars, time travel, energies used in animistic or 'healing' therapies, being able to fly, etc.

The skin or oral trito stage is the internalization of the oral father and recreation of his power among the lower generation by the possession of things.

The skin or oral-trito narcissist is between competition with others to possess valuable things and being above the possession of things. He can react to competing for possessions or present himself as having the most valuable possessions.


The part-object father-substiute is space and the mnemic-trace of objects/things under which the world appears as the world.

The part-object narcissist opposes being under the father-substitute and tries to present 'possible worlds' that rival the world we are in.    

The part-object-trito stage is the internalization of the part-object father and recreation of his power among the lower generation through phantasy or picturing objects in the mind's eye. 

The part-object-trito narcissist is between forming phantasy of desired things and being above phantasy. He can react to phantasy or present himself as the master of phantasy. 


anxiety in the part-object stage is attached to annihilation of the world/something that would harm or impact the world and one along with it.
anxiety in the oral stage is attached to major disasters
anxiety in the anal stage is attached to physical death
anxiety in the phallic stage is attached to loss of reputation

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