ABSTRACT
The view that introjection and projection are the architects of the mental structure and that they build up the ego from the beginning of life is not held universally among psycho-analysts. The role of the ego in reconnaissance and judgement extends further to the internal needs and to the commands and prohibitions issued from the super-ego. The primitive stages of the super-ego are formed during phases in which primitive phantasy determines the infant's relation with Anna Freud objects, and consequently his concepts of his parents are grossly distorted. The difference between auto-erotism and narcissism, according to Freud, is that in the condition there is not yet an ego; the auto-erotic impulses are primordial, and ante-date the formation of the ego. With the decline of the Oedipus complex super-ego formation reaches a new and highly important level, whilst the earlier introjections provide its foundations.
