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Ego Ideal

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Noun

1. ego ideal

(psychoanalysis) the part of the ego that contains an ideal of personal excellence toward which a person strives

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ego Ideal

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noun
psychoanalysis
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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Ego Ideal

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Psychoanalysis
the ego's conception of a better or more successful future self, based on identification with parents or parental substitutes

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ego Ideal

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n.
In psychoanalytic theory, a part of the psyche that consists of an idealized self, the self one wants ideally to be.

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