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In this issue, “Ideal and Idol,” the authors analyze the different variations that help to understand the dynamic of the relationship between idol, ideal, and religious ideal. They cover the relations between incarnation and de-idealization, the transforming power of the ideal, and the “religious moment” of the Ego. By focusing the myth of an ideal, eternal youth, on his historical figure, Michael Jackson compels us to reconsider the postmodern function of the idol in adolescence.