Women write ongoing paratactic, impressionist, digressive, — AD hoc sentences: sentences without ego — being without structure more or less corresponding to being without ego.

And yet to function in culture, we need an ego that allows us to structure time and organize our energies in service to certain abstractions like economics or service or whatever.

The buildup of the ego ideal as an idealized internalized structure rein-forces a sense of security, inner goodness, and intimate relations with significant others.