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Definition of Ego ideal
1. Noun. (psychoanalysis) the part of the ego that contains an ideal of personal excellence toward which a person strives.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ego Ideal
Literary usage of Ego ideal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"His ego-ideal is not always easily a victor, nor always fully successful. The mind
deflects his anti-ego impulses from a forbidden goal on to an ethically ..."
2. The Technique of Psychoanalysis by Smith Ely Jelliffe (1918)
"... how his conscious intentions and deeds measured to the ego ideal are continually
disturbed through the unconscious events belonging to his actual ego. ..."
3. Problems in Dynamic Psychology: A Critique of Psychoanalysis and Suggested by John Thompson MacCurdy (1922)
"Elsewhere 1 Freud describes the development of an "ego-ideal" as a result of
education of the individual. (Since libidinous factors enter into this latter ..."
4. Sex Searchlights and Sane Sex Ethics: An Anthology of Sex Knowledge by Lee Alexander Stone (1922)
"Later contributions to the ego-ideal arise from the desire to be thought well of
and approved by the powers that be, human or Divine; to be loved, admired, ..."
5. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1920)
"comes to be the external ego ideal. A great part of the transference situation
must find its explanation here. The resistance, considered from this point of ..."
6. The Mental Hygiene of Childhood by William Alanson White (1919)
"We shall see later that the Narcissistic component is capable of great usefulness
in formulating an ego- ideal. That is an ideal for self. ..."
7. Psycho-analysis and the War Neuroses by Sándor Ferenczi (1921)
"One of these, the "primary gain of illness", a current one, alien to the conscious
ego ideal, and therefore half repressed and only half conscious —if ..."
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