Usually means: Idealized self-image and personal standards.
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  1. ego ideal: Merriam-Webster
  2. ego ideal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ego ideal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ego ideal: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. ego ideal: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. ego-ideal, ego ideal: Dictionary.com
  8. Ego ideal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. ego ideal: FreeDictionary.org
  11. ego ideal: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. ego ideal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ego ideal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. ego ideal: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Ego ideal)

noun:  In Freudian psychoanalysis, the ego ideal is the inner image of oneself as one wants to become.


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