Table 1.

Addictive idealization/splitting.

The addiction
Experiencing ego/psychic reality	Observing ego/external reality
Facilitates relationships	Makes close relationships difficult (wards off fear of control/merger)
Creates pleasure	Creates pain
Gives a sense of omnipotence	Makes one impaired
Is a rebellion that creates a feeling of separateness	Is a compliance with the attacking introject that undercuts the use of aggression needed to be separate