Malignant narcissists, though devoured by envy and rage, can still idealise powerful figures whose beliefs conveniently justify the destruction of those they denigrate, says Kernberg.
Predictably, many anti-imperialist leftists reacted to the news by patronising the Ukrainians: how deluded they are still to idealise Europe, not to be able to see that joining the EU would just make Ukraine an economic colony of western Europe, sooner or later to go the same way as Greece.
By reckoning the payments annually according to the tax base (rather than how cantons tax and spend) and by providing lump sums instead of semi-hidden subsidies, the system preserves cantons' freedom of action and also encourages tax competition.None of this is to idealise Switzerland.
Ironically, the feminist tendency to idealise women reveals itself as uncomfortably close to men's sexist assumption that women should always be "nice".
It sifts through decades of conflicting arguments ranging from the possible influences of at least four religious orders to heretical or even anti-religious sympathies which are supposedly evident in Caravaggio's refusal to idealise Christian subjects.
Anyone still tempted to idealise the Olympics really ought to read Mr Payne's account of the IOC's wrath as visited on a 1996 Costa Rican swimmer and gold medallist who turned out to have snuck a Pepsi advertisement onto her cap.
Those who idealise a patchwork of traditional banks should look at Spain, whose bust savings banks are now being merged to try to make them safer.Instead of predicting what types of banking are safe, the Vickers commission observes that some kinds are worth bailing out more than others: namely, banks' high-street arms and the payments systems that people rely on.
SIVASUBRAMANIANEdinburghSIR In your article on anti-corruption efforts, you seem to idealise "liberalism" to the point where it corresponds to nothing that actually exists.
The old Wall Street was lost.It would be a mistake to idealise the partnerships.
Britons still idealise having one faithful partner, according to the findings, even if that did not necessarily mean being married.
Pursuing the rebel son, Supratik, on a career from 1960s Maoist idealism through brutal murders in the jungle, to scenes of police torture that had this reader sitting protectively on his hands, it is a graphic reminder that the bourgeois Indian culture Western readers so readily idealise is sustained at terrible human cost.
