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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

e′go ide′al, [Psychoanal.]

Psychologya 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.

1920–25

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