idealized image

noun

, Psychology.

a personal standard of perfection against which one's actual thinking, behavior, and appearance are compared.
an exaggerated and unrealistic view of one's virtues and abilities.

And yet if the selfie is the most idealized image of the self, then Cubitt has worked to break through that frozen representation.

Or when your relationship to a work of art, and to the world, is diminished in order to maintain a certain idealized image?

His kiss remained imprinted on her lips and his idealized image on her heart.

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