what does ego ideal mean?
EGO IDEAL as NOUN
- Meaning
- (psychoanalysis) the part of the ego that contains an ideal of personal excellence toward which a person strives
Hypernyms(s) ego ideal is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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