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Idealisation

noun

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad. Synonym: idealization.

Something that exists only as an idea. Synonym: idealization.

A portrayal of something as ideal. Synonyms: glorification, idealization.

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Etymology of 'Idealisation'

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"Idealisation" Quotes from Famous Books

... It is made from the kernel of the wild mango, a singularly beautiful tree of great size and stately spread of foliage. I can compare it only in appearance and habit of growth to our Irish, or evergreen, oak, but it is an idealisation of that fine tree. Its leaves are a softer, brighter, deeper green, and in due season (August) it is covered— not ostentatiously like the real mango, with great spikes of bloom, looking each like a gigantic head of mignonette—but with small yellow-green flowers tucked away under the ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... knowledge which has ripened into culture. But the recovery of such a story, the reconstruction of such a figure, are not affected by description alone; one must penetrate to the heart of the myth, and master the significance of the woman transformed by idealisation into a beneficent and much labouring goddess. We must go with Mr. Pater a step farther if we would understand how a man of culture divines the deeper experiences of ...

— Books and Culture • Hamilton Wright Mabie

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