In Freudian psychoanalysis, the ego ideal (German: Ichideal) is the inner image of oneself as one wants to become.[1] It consists of "the individual's conscious and unconscious images of what he would like to be, patterned after certain people whom ... he regards as ideal."[2]
In French psychoanalysis, the concept of the ego ideal is distinguished from that of the ideal ego. According to Jacques Lacan, it is the ideal ego, generated at the time of the infant's identification with its own unified specular image, that becomes the foundation for the ego's constant striving for perfection. In contrast, the ego ideal is when the ego views itself from that imaginary point of perfection, seeing its normal life as vain and futile.[3]
^Salman Akhtar, Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009) p. 89
^Eric Berne, A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (Penguin 1976) p. 96
^Feluga, Dino Franco. "Ego Ideal and Ideal Ego". Introductory Guide to Critical Theory. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
In Freudian psychoanalysis, the egoideal (German: Ichideal) is the inner image of oneself as one wants to become. It consists of "the individual's conscious...
Über-Ich), or the ego-ideal (German: Ideal-Ich) (34). Although Freud seems never to argue for the existence of a super-ego in The Ego and the Id (save...
acceptable to the needs and goals of the ego, or consistent with one's ideal self-image. Egodystonic (or ego alien) is the opposite, referring to thoughts...
values the child forms an egoideal. This egoideal contains rules for good behaviour and standards of excellence toward which the ego has to strive. When the...
(illusory) oneness'. Freud also explored how 'in cases of mania the ego and egoideal have fused together...in a mood of triumph and self-satisfaction'...
parental figure is transformed into the pacifying identifications of the Egoideal which assume both similarity and difference and acknowledge the separateness...
material. The ego and the id interact, as the ego seeks to bring the influence of the external world to bear on the id. In short, the ego represents reason...
of individuals who have put one and the same object in place of their egoideal and consequently identify with each other." German: "provisorisches Wesen...
'object-libido' The essay is notable for its introduction of the idea of the 'egoideal', and the self-observing agency related to it, which would later be developed...
the actions taken by the ego, after its slow development from a "pleasure-ego" into a "reality-ego". Freud argued that “an ego thus educated has become...
Paul Schreber Original concepts Psychoanalysis Id, ego and superego Libido Preconscious Egoideal censorship Free association Transference Psychosexual...
pleasure that is linked to narcissistic identification (the introjection of egoideal), and each type of male gaze shows how women have been socially compelled...
induced by any and all means to take on the characteristics of the parental egoideal – a pattern that has been detected in western culture since Homer's description...
completely. Alter ego Anima and animus Authenticity (philosophy) Bad faith (existentialism) Character mask Crystallized self Ego death Egoideal Higher self...
Paul Schreber Original concepts Psychoanalysis Id, ego and superego Libido Preconscious Egoideal censorship Free association Transference Psychosexual...
Paul Schreber Original concepts Psychoanalysis Id, ego and superego Libido Preconscious Egoideal censorship Free association Transference Psychosexual...
the ego-ideal – the internalization of one's goals. Hence, the basic psychodynamic model focuses on the dynamic interactions between the id, ego, and...
an egoideal and phallic function; he places "psychotic autism" where there is no objet petit a, no social mirror, and the absence of the egoideal and...
should not be conflated with arrogant social behaviour. God complex EgoidealEgo reduction Egotism Neville Symington Omnipotence Snowflake (slang) Supremacism...
narcissism: an introduction'] saw the superego as composed of two parts: the egoideal, which sets standards, and the conscience, which punishes the person for...
society", has been described as a "pathological narcissist" for whom the "ego-ideal" has become "inflated and destructive" and whose "grandiose lies, poor...
shame-fueled rage, when a blow to narcissism exposed the gap between one's egoideal and reality; while Jacques Lacan linked Freud on the narcissistic wound...
whether she would obliged with the white-egoideal which asserts her security or rejection of the white-ego-ideal. Nick Joaquin also, every now and then...
Norton. ISBN 0-393-00686-7. OCLC 780458101. Blum, H. 1979. Masochism, the EgoIdeal and the Psychology of Women. JAPA. IPA Component Organisations in Europe...
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