Winograd proposes to clarify certain problems concerning the delimitation of the superego as a structure and the relationship of its content to other structures of the psychic apparatus. He starts with what Freud at first called the ego ideal and the conceptual position assigned to this structure when he formulated the structural theory in 1923. Winograd proposes to call the ego ideal that structure of the mind which includes functions of comparison or of balance, and which results genetically from the loss of the infant's self-sufficiency because of the discovery that others exist outside oneself. He next attempts to clarify the concept of the ego ideal as a superego function and discusses its integration into the theory of narcissism. The ego ideal of the 1914 papers is conceptualized on a genetic and structural level different from that of the superego of 1923. The ego ideal results from internalization of the structure that results from the conflict at the appearance of the dyad;