This interesting paper utilizes biographical source material from Freud's adolescence, introspective accounts from the self-analysis of several psychoanalysts, and vignettes from the psychoanalytic literature. It is proposed that during adolescence the necessary de-idealization of archaic parental images, with their transformation into newly internalized idealization which consolidates into a stable ego ideal, is served effectively by intense peer relations called 'Academia' by the authors after Freud's 'Academia Castellona'. The 'Academia' serves to maintain narcissistic balance and the cohesion of the self. Freud's intimate correspondence with Eduard Silberstein re-enacted Cervantes's solution to his disillusionment with the world and its evils. Freud's discredited, old internalized childhood image, inspired by his often quoted disillusionment