{"product_id":"the-boy-will-come-to-nothing-freuds-ego-ideal-and-freud-as-ego-ideal-9780300056846","title":"The Boy Will Come to Nothing!: Freuds Ego Ideal and Freud as Ego Ideal","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur parents are the earliest models for our future behavior and the standards against which we judge ourselves. But as we grow and gradually separate from our parents  we find other people - some real and some drawn from history  fiction  or myth - who merge with the parental images and become part of our ego ideal  or role model. According to Dr. Leonard Shengold  our capacity to mature and change depends in large part on our ability to transfer hero worship from parents to people outside the family  for the latter are less threatening objects of the terrible emotional ambivalences we harbor toward parental figures  on whom we are dependent. Psychoanalysis  says Dr. Shengold  has not sufficiently emphasized the importance of people from outside the family in psychic maturation. In this profound and eloquent book  Dr. Shengold illustrates his thesis by investigating Freuds own ego ideals  showing how Freud was influenced by his father and others and how he spent his life trying to disprove his fathers remark  \"The boy will come to nothing!\" Dr. Shengold discusses Freuds psychic development in relation to such figures as the biblical Abraham  Joseph  and Moses; the literary and historical Montaigne  Goethe  and Napoleon; the fictional Oedipus and Hamlet; and especially Freuds colleagues Jung  Fliess  and Abraham. And finally he shows how Freud  despite his imperfections  has become one of our ego ideals - a substitute parental figure not only for students of psychology but for all those interested in culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647089041461,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300056842","price":107.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300056846.jpg?v=1781688564","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-boy-will-come-to-nothing-freuds-ego-ideal-and-freud-as-ego-ideal-9780300056846","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}