(Ichideal)
The ideal form of ‘I’ the ego poetics after it has overcome the narcissism of childhood (or what Freud, Anna calls the ideal ego). In his early work, Freud makes little distinction between the ego-ideal and the superego, but he gradually distinguishes it as that in the psychical apparatus which makes human collectivity possible. As he explains in his 1921 book on group psychology, in his view large groups are formed out of a collective fascination for powerful leaders: in submitting to their will, the subject effectively substitutes their ideal-ego for his or her own. The leader becomes the image of the ego the subject wishes he or she actually had.