The Boy Will Come to Nothing!: Freud`s Ego Ideal and Freud as Ego Ideal

By Leonard Shengold

According to this text, one's capacity to mature depends in large part on our ability to transfer hero worship from parents to people outside the family. This book illustrates the thesis by investigating Sigmund Freud's own ego ideals, showing how he was influenced by his father.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300056842
• ISBN13: 9780300056846
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"