I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good βIβ who is going to improve the bad βme.β βI,β who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward βme,β and the tussle between the two will very much stress the difference between them. Consequently βIβ will feel more separate than ever, and so merely increase the lonely and cut-off feelings which make βmeβ behave so badly.