ego ideal


nounPsychoanalysis.
  1. 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

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First recorded in 1920–25

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ego ideal

noun
  1. 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

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