Before revision: "Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis(PFL 2) p. 96 Further developments Otto Fenichel, building on Sandor Rado's differentiation of "the 'good' (i.e., protecting) and the 'bad' (i.e., punishing) aspects of the superego"Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (London 1946) p. 412 sought to "distinguish ego ideals, the patterns of what one would like to be, from the superego, which is characterized as a threatening, prohibiting, and punishing power".Fenichel, p. 106 While acknowledging the links between the two agencies, he suggested for example that "in humor the overcathected superego is the friendly and protective ego-ideal; in depression, it is the negative, hostile, punishing conscience.
After revision: "Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis(PFL 2) p. 96 Later perspectives Otto Fenichel, building on Sandor Rado's differentiation of "the 'good' (i.e., protecting) and the 'bad' (i.e., punishing) aspects of the superego"Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (London 1946) p. 412 sought to "distinguish ego ideals, the patterns of what one would like to be, from the superego, which is characterized as a threatening, prohibiting, and punishing power".Fenichel, p. 106 While acknowledging the links between the two agencies, he suggested for example that "in humor the overcathected superego is the friendly and protective ego-ideal; in depression, it is the negative, hostile, punishing conscience.