ego ideal
a more or less conscious ideal of personal excellence derived from a composite image of the characteristics of persons, initially those of the parents, with whom the individual identifies.
Origin of ego ideal
1Words Nearby ego ideal
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use ego ideal in a sentence
The whole situation can be completely summarised in a formula: The object has taken the place of the ego ideal.
Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego | Sigmund FreudIt is even obvious, in many forms of love choice, that the object serves as a substitute for some unattained ego ideal of our own.
Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego | Sigmund FreudThe primal father is the group ideal, which governs the ego in the place of the ego ideal.
Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego | Sigmund FreudThere is always a feeling of triumph when something in the ego coincides with the ego ideal.
Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego | Sigmund FreudIt is then set up again inside the ego, by means of identification, and severely condemned by the ego ideal.
Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego | Sigmund Freud
British Dictionary definitions for ego ideal
psychoanal an internal ideal of personal perfection that represents what one wants to be rather than what one ought to be and is derived from one's early relationship with one's parents: See also superego
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse