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ego ideal
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ego ideal [¦ē‚gō ī′dēl]
(psychology)
The part of an individual's personality that is composed of the aims and goals for the self and that usually refers to the conscious or unconscious emulation of significant people with whom the individual has identified.
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No twin, no sister, no shadow of Sally Melhado's ideal ego.
Companion by White, Sarah / Harvard Review
The personality traits contributing to openness operate on the first level through the ego's navigation of (1) a realignment of the twin ideals of ego ideal (yearning for perfection) and ideal ego (inflated sense of self, and (2) successive deintegrations (Fordham) to accommodate newly consolidated growth.
Editor's note by Hartman, David / Journal of Heart Centered Therapies
The personality traits contributing to openness operate on the first level through the ego's navigation of (1) a realignment of the twin ideals of ego ideal (yearning for perfection) and ideal ego (inflated sense of self); and (2) successive deintegrations (Fordham) to accommodate newly consolidated growth.
Deintegrate, disintegrate, unintegrate: a Buddhist perspective in ... by Zimberoff, Diane / Journal of Heart Centered Therapies
 
 
 
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