what about the super-ego? yeah.
what about it?

if the ego were merely the part of the id modified by the influence of the perceptual system, the representative in the mind of the real external world, we should have a simple state of things to deal with. but there is a further complication...
we succeeded in explaining the painful disorder of melancholia by supposing that [in those suffering from it] an object which was lost has been set up again inside the ego- that is, that an object-cathexis has been replaced by an identification.      -sig freud.

it would seem like the ego-ideal would be a problem.
yeah, it would. but maybe you read too casually or randomly. maybe you just see what you want to see.