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Nov 8, 2009
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e'go ide"al



Psychoanal.
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.

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