ego ideal: Meaning and Definition of

e'go ide"al

Pronunciation: [key]
— Psychoanal. Psychoanal.
  1. a 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.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
ego-dystonic egoism
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