A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

 

Id
Idealization
Idealizing Transference
Ideals
Identification
Identity

Identity Attachment
Image
Impeccability
Impersonal Witness
Impressionability
Individual
Individuality
Individuation Narcissism
Inertia
Infant Soul
Inner development
Inner Journey
Inner Mother
Inner Realization
Inner Space
Innocence
Inquiry
Insecurity
Insight
Instinct
Instinctual Drives
Integration
Intelligence
Interference
Introjection
Intuition
Ipseity
Issues

Idealization

Grandiosity may alternate with, or be hidden by, an inordinate need to find persons to idealize. The need to idealize someone specific is normal, but it is a more desperate need for the narcissist, and is needed for the normal individual when the narcissistic constellation approaches conscious experience in the work of spiritual development. The idealization becomes more extreme, and one tends to believe that one's idealized figure possesses unusual perfection and power. He uses the relationship to the idealized figure as a support for his sense of identity, to gain a sense of power and perfection from the association with the idealized figure. (The Point of Existence, pg 162)