Relating to the superego

摘要

The author aims to demonstrate the disjunction and antagonism between normal and abnor- mal forms of supergeo through an enquiry into clinical material from two patients who manifest abnormal forms of the superego as recognised by Freud, Abraham and Klein, later termed by Bion 'the ego-destructive superego'. The abnormal superego usurps the status and authority of a normal superego and entices the ego to turn away form life, to dissociate itself from its objects and ultimately to destroy itself.