As the play progresses, though, the situational variables increase in complexity and enable Isabella to make the choices that either strengthen her True Self or her False Self, leading either to ego integration and psychological health or to dysfunction. Part of healthy development demands successful ego integration especially at the stage during which the id demands (in Isabella's case, the demands to remain pure at all costs) are integrated as "part of the self," and not viewed as something external (Winnicott, 1960, p
As the play progresses, though, the situational variables increase in complexity and enable Isabella to make the choices that either strengthen her True Self or her False Self, leading either to ego integration and psychological health or to dysfunction. Part of healthy development demands successful ego integration especially at the stage during which the id demands (in Isabella's case, the demands to remain pure at all costs) are integrated as "part of the self," and not viewed as something external (Winnicott, 1960, p