>Not at all. There is no such thing as 'auto-critique.' The Self cannot
>critique itself without falling into narcissism. Didn't Marx and Freud tell
>you that?
Well not exactly. Freud psychoanalyzed himself, which is a kind of critique, no? Not that he succeeded, or that a psychoanalysis ever succeeds. But without some allowance for self-critique, we'd all be completely, inescapably creatures of our personal histories and social positions. Engels would have been a capitalist pig and not Marx's collaborator and patron.
And one theory of narcissism (it's been too many years, but I think it was Kohut's) involves a fusion of all the psychic subpopulations (ego and ego-ideal) into a pathological whole, with no observing superego doing its critical bit.
Doug