Ego ideal
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In Freudian psychology, the ego ideal (or ideal ego) is "an image of the perfect self towards which the ego should aspire."[1]
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- ^ Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal, 1st American ed., trans. Paul Barrows, introduction by Christopher Lasch (1984; New York: W.W. Norton, 1985), originally published as Idéal du moi ([Paris]: Tchou, 1975). ISBN 0-393-01971-3.
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