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ego ideal
noun
- 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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ego ideal1
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Example Sentences
The whole situation can be completely summarised in a formula: The object has taken the place of the ego ideal.
It is even obvious, in many forms of love choice, that the object serves as a substitute for some unattained ego ideal of our own.
The primal father is the group ideal, which governs the ego in the place of the ego ideal.
There is always a feeling of triumph when something in the ego coincides with the ego ideal.
It is then set up again inside the ego, by means of identification, and severely condemned by the ego ideal.
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