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Unattainable Ideal
Another important factor in the ego activity is that the self is always striving to be a particular way, in order to achieve support. The primary image patterning this activity is the ego ideal. The self tries to approximate a certain ideal, in the hope that if she succeeds, she will be worthy of the support she needs. This ideal is never attained, but the self never tires of trying. Thus, effort is a chronic characteristic of the self-identity structure.
- Effort
- Ego
- Ego Activity
- Ego Alien
- Ego Death
- Ego Defense
- Ego Deficiency
- Ego Development
- Ego Functions
- Ego "I"
- Ego Ideal
- Ego Identity
- Ego Life
- Ego Metabolism
- Ego Structures
- Embodiment
- Emotional States
- Emotions
- Emptiness
- Energies
- Enlightenment
- Enlightenment Factors
- Essence
- Essential Development
- Essential Experience
- Essential Identity
- Essential Love
- Essential Qualities
- Essential Realization
- Essential Retrieval
- Essential Self
- Essential Truth
- Evil
- Evolutionary Force
- Existence
- Experience
- Entityhood
- Enneagram and the Diamond Approach
- Enneagram of Holy Ideas
- Enneagram of Specific Delusions
- Enneagram of Specific Difficulties
- Enneagram of Specific Reactions
