Fairbairn's ideal-object & ideal-ego?
* I just started studying Fairbairn, but I wanted to point out this difference:
"The main core of the internalized object, which is not repressed, is described as the ideal object or ego-ideal.[...]—a central (conscious) ego attached to the ideal object (ego-ideal)" (Fairbairn, Synopsis of an Object-Relations Theory of the Personality)
vs.
“Multiples of the ideal ego are typically thoughtful, helpful, emotionally detached, and can act as ‘guardians’ for the constellation of alternative personalities with whom they are connected.[...] Multiples of the ideal object are typically ineffective.” (Finnegan & Clarke, Fairbairn and multiple personalities, own re-translation)
My library does not stock any of Clarke’s works or anthologies. There isn’t much by Fairbairn either. I just ordered "Psychoanalytic studies of the personality". I would be grateful for an informed perspective on this contradiction.