Before revision: In Freudian psychoanalysis, the ego ideal () is the inner image of oneself as one wants to become.Salman Akhtar, Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009) p. 89 Alternatively, "the Freudian notion of a perfect or ideal self housed in the superego,"Howard Rosenthal, Human Services Dictionary (2003) p. 102 consisting of "the individual's conscious and unconscious images of what he would like to be, patterned after certain people whom ... he regards as ideal.
After revision: In Freudian psychoanalysis, the ego ideal () is the inner image of oneself as one wants to become.Salman Akhtar, Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2009) p. 89 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.