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What is the name of the book that discusses the destructive qualities of the "infantile, grandiose ego ideal"?
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The name of the book is Escape from the Ego Ideal. In their wake, Otto Kernberg highlighted the destructive qualities of the "infantile, grandiose ego ideal" - of "identification with an overidealized self- and object-representation, with the primitive form of ego-ideal. "Harold Bloom has since explored in a literary context how "in the narcissist, the ego-ideal becomes