ABSTRACT
The ego ideal was first mentioned by Sigmund Freud in the article "On narcissism. The first narcissistic state the subject enjoys is a primary narcissism, where the infant has taken its own ego as the object of its libido. The superego can be viewed as a series of narrathemes insisting with their severe message. The ethical moment is obviously marked by sudden leaps, which could possibly be explained with the help of the assumption that our mental functions are organized in the form of gestalts; holistic structures exceeding the sum of their constituent parts. The transition from one gestalt to another allows for no gradual change— the shift is immediate. Deconstruction of the character formation and desublimation of instinctual energies leave room for the voice of structural guilt. Structural guilt is a guide that will pattern the subject’s use of the ego ideal’s store of narrathemes.
