This is one of a series of articles in which the authors propose to investigate self-image processes within both the normal and the psychiatric adolescent patient population. Using techniques derived from information theory, they studied the degree of polarization of various self-images, i.e., between current self-images, maternal, paternal, dream (idealized) images, and temporal self-images. The tentative findings suggest that normal late adolescent boys tend to polarize their paternal and maternal idealizations and that adolescent patients tend to polarize their dream idealizations.