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Meaning of "ego ideal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EGO IDEAL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EGO IDEAL

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Ego ideal is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EGO IDEAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ego ideal

The ego ideal is the inner image of oneself as one wants to become. Alternatively, 'The Freudian notion of a perfect or ideal self housed in the superego', consisting of 'the individual's conscious and unconscious images of what he would like to be, patterned after certain people whom...he regards as ideal'. In the French strand of Freudian psychology, the ego ideal has been defined as "an image of the perfect self towards which the ego should aspire."...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EGO IDEAL

ego
ego boost
ego surfing
ego trip
ego-trip
egocentric
egocentrical
egocentrically
egocentricity
egocentrism
egoism
egoist
egoistic
egoistical
egoistically
egoity
egoless
Egoli
egomania
egomaniac

WORDS THAT END LIKE EGO IDEAL

big deal
bog deal
club deal
cut a deal
deal
ideal
irideal
megadeal
misdeal
nonideal
ordeal
package deal
pay deal
redeal
side deal
somedeal
sweetheart deal
the real deal
unideal
wheel and deal

Synonyms and antonyms of ego ideal in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «ego ideal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EGO IDEAL

Find out the translation of ego ideal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ego ideal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ego ideal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自我理想
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ideal del yo
570 millions of speakers

English

ego ideal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आदर्श अहंकार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأنا المثالي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эго-идеал
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ego ideal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অহং আদর্শ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

idéal du Moi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ego ideal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ich-Ideal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

理想的なエゴ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이상적인 자아
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ego becik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ego lý tưởng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஈகோ சிறந்தது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अहंकार आदर्श
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ego ideal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ego ideale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ego idealne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

его- ідеал
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ego ideală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ego ιδανικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ego ideale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ego idealisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ego ideelle
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EGO IDEAL»

The term «ego ideal» is normally little used and occupies the 141.606 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EGO IDEAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ego ideal

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EGO IDEAL»

Discover the use of ego ideal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ego ideal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal
" The book includes chapters on the following aspects of the ego ideal: perversion, genitality, being-in-love, groups, sublimation in the creative process, reality testing, and the superego.
Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, 1985
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Protecting the Self: Defense Mechanisms in Action
Although both the superego and ego ideal begin in early childhood, they do not evolve from the same origins or at the same point in development. It is beyond the scope of the present work to provide a detailed discussion of the origin of the  ...
Phebe Cramer, 2006
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The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
The Ego Ideal The significance of the Oedipus complex, then, lies in its destruction of the infantile illusion of omnipotence. The narcissistic longing behind this illusion lives on, however, in the form of the "ego ideal," which Freud once referred ...
Christopher Lasch, 1985
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Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts
64 Ego Ideal Hartmann, H. (1952). The mutual influences in the development of ego and id. PSOC, 7:9-30. (1956). The development of the ego concept in Freud's work. UP, 37:425-438. Hartmann, H. & Loewenstein, R. M. (1962). Notes on the ...
Burness E. Moore, Bernard D. Fine, 1990
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Developmental Theories Through the Life Cycle
The role of the superego is taken over to some extent by an emphasis on personal dignity and self-esteem, with the ego ideal replacing the idealized parent of earlier years. A great need no longer exists to battle parents when a love object is ...
Sonia G. Austrian, 2008
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The Psychodynamics of Work and Organizations: Theory and ...
are contained in a self-object unit which resides in the superego and the ego ideal. He refers to this as the "self-object of destiny" and says that it "is the guarantor of ambition" (p. 189). Piers and Singer (1952) also claim that a relationship ...
William M. Czander, 1993
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Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege
In many cases of identification, the external object takes the place of the individual's ego, but in the case of group formation the external object takes the place of each individual's ego ideal.10 The ego ideal is ''heir to the original narcissism,'' ...
Shannon Sullivan, 2006
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The Threshold of the Visible World
The fact that I have spent so much time clarifying the argument through which Lacan represents the ego—ideal as an ethical guide to the other should not be taken as implying that I agree with it. Crucial as the category of the ego-ideal is to the ...
Kaja Silverman, Professor of Rhetoric and Film Kaja Silverman, 2013
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On Adolescence: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
The Ego Ideal The concept of the ego ideal has played of late a rather insignificant role in the psychology of adolescence. I shall use this concept here because it permits the delineation of an ego modification typical for the adolescent period.
Peter Blos, 1966
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Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality
Indeed, it is possible to argue that one of the primary material effects of the ego- ideal is the construction of what I will call the body image ideal. As a corporeal enactment of the ego-ideal, all of the normative force of the ego-ideal is directed ...
Gail Weiss, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EGO IDEAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ego ideal is used in the context of the following news items.
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6 Secrets Every Gay Person Should Know About Their Relationship
Sigmund Freud believed that our need for love was centered on our need for an "ego ideal" or image of the person that we wanted to become ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
2
The Impact of Social Media on Self-Esteem
This ideal self, or ego ideal as it was originally termed by Sigmund Freud in 1914, is an inner character which has attributes that we aspire to ... «Blasting News, Apr 15»
3
The Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
Paul Pierce either experienced a spiritual awakening or assumed his ego ideal as the “Truth” during his “Come to Jesus” sit-down interview with ESPN.com ... «SportsBlog.com, Apr 15»
4
Is Being a Writer a Job or a Calling?
And I pay for the cab fare and footwear by being an actual writer — no longer as a hazy ego ideal or TV-based lifestyle aspiration, but as a ... «New York Times, Jan 15»
5
Technology is making us blind: The dangerous complacency of the …
... the ideology of intimacy incites us to invest our love in the technological object through presenting it as key to the pursuit of our ego ideal. «Salon, Nov 14»
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Cine Files: Two by Truffaut, Wednesday at the Cinémathèque
... hero is something like Woody Allen's ego ideal—a genius performer who shares his endearingly self-questioning thoughts with the audience, ... «Montreal Gazette, Nov 14»
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The Poverty of Hillary Clinton
... that they are just waiting, sheep-like, for a Joan of Arc figure who will serve “lesser” women as what Jungian psychologists call an “ego ideal.”. «Project Syndicate, Jun 14»
8
Jeff Bezos, Drones and Megalomania
... awakening of his own critical judgment, so that he can no longer retain that perfection, he seeks to recover it in the new form of an ego ideal. «Huffington Post, Dec 13»
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The Cool in Her: The Flamethrowers Author Rachel Kushner …
But placing demands on the ego to create a kind of ego ideal, so that you want to please the Other. It's the thing in you that's greater than ... «Vulture, Dec 13»
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The Cool in Her
It's the Other within the self in you but separate from you and unapproachable. But placing demands on the ego to create a kind of ego ideal, ... «New York Magazine, Dec 13»

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