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ego ideal

 
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–noun Psychoanalysis.
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:
1920–25
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ego ideal  
n.  In psychoanalysis, the part of one's ego that contains an idealized self based on those people, especially parents and peers, one admires and wishes to emulate.
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Main Entry: ego ideal
Function: noun
: the positive standards, ideals, and ambitions that according to psychoanalytic theory are assimilated from the superego
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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ego ideal n.
In psychoanalytic theory, the part of one's ego that contains an idealized self based on those people, especially parents and peers, one admires and wishes to emulate.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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