The potentially dangerous psychological changes produced by psychedelic chemicals have sometimes been interpreted as "loosening ego structures," "dissolving ego boundaries," or "disrupting ego defenses".
Dr. Sterba writes "I consider aesthetic feelings in general the first and mildest form of mystic experience; there is no aesthetic feeling without transcendence of the self into outside objects through extended Ego boundaries".
The video component (by Fabio Iaquone), like the images of Mr. Flak unable to control the movements of his own body, or uncertain how to put together one made of cloth and stuffing, combine to convey powerfully a frightening sense that this is a world in which ego boundaries have been dissolved.
This unconsciously prompts the mother to encourage her son to psychologically individuate himself from her thereby prompting him to develop well defined and rigid ego boundaries.
Childhood gender socialisation further builds on and reinforces these unconsciously developed ego boundaries finally producing feminine and masculine persons (1995, 202 206).
However, the mother unconsciously discourages the daughter from individuating herself thereby prompting the daughter to develop flexible and blurry ego boundaries.
These traits are said to result from men's well-defined ego boundaries that enable them to prioritise their own needs and interests sometimes at the expense of others' needs and interests.
This is said to be because of their blurry and (somewhat) confused ego boundaries: women find it hard to distinguish their own needs from the needs of those around them because they cannot sufficiently individuate themselves from those close to them.
That can result in panic and anxiety at the loss of ego boundaries and confusion.
Musicologist Susan McClary wrote that "Madonna's art itself repeatedly deconstructs the traditional notion of the unified subject with finite ego boundaries.
Saturn represented the ego boundaries to the transcendental expression of the outer planets that could not be seen, but only felt in fleeting impressions of the spirit.
