title: The organization of the self-representation and its influence on pathology.
abstract: Units within the self-representation provide the quality for ego activity. The ego selects and cathects the appropriate unit of the self-representation. Oedipal identifications internalize the ego capacity to maintain the self-representation and its stability. Conflict can promote instability within the self-representation requiring special defenses to deal with the narcissistic stress. Such narcissistic conflict can arise at all levels of maturity.
mesh_terms: D000184:Acting Out; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D007060:Id; D008297:Male; D009289:Narcissism; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D009769:Object Attachment; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013475:Superego; D014167:Transference, Psychology