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Idealization

noun
1.
A portrayal of something as ideal.  Synonyms: glorification, idealisation.
2.
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad.  Synonym: idealisation.
3.
Something that exists only as an idea.  Synonym: idealisation.






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"Idealization" Quotes from Famous Books



... all his heart's longings, all his dreams, every least pang of self-reproach, the idealization of Marguerite, and the finding of that ideal incarnated in one who was and yet seemed not to be, or rather seemed to be and yet was not, Marguerite. And then he went on to re-assure his father that this could never mean marriage, ...
— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable

... literary taster for the publisher last applied to was less engrossed with business than the others, or whether he thought it would do the aspiring poetess good to show her her faults, I cannot tell, but he wrote a long letter of critical remarks. There was one ballad—an idealization of the incident in Jane's life which had so much impressed Elsie, in which William Dalzell was made more fascinating and more faithless, and Jane much more attached to him than in reality—which this correspondent said was good, though the subject ...
— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence

... believed in Barrie. He had gone to an extraordinary expense to produce "Peter Pan" in England. He duplicated it in the United States. No other character in all her repertory made such a swift appeal to Miss Adams as Peter Pan. She saw in him the idealization of everything that was wonderful and wistful ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

... "Benedicite," &c. Through these chants it was that the sorrow which laid waste my infancy, and the devotion which nature had made a necessity of my being, were profoundly interfused: the sorrow gave reality and depth to the devotion; the devotion gave grandeur and idealization to the sorrow. Neither was my love for chanting altogether without knowledge. A son of my reverend guardian, much older than myself, who possessed a singular faculty of producing a sort of organ accompaniment with one half of his mouth, whilst ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey



Words linked to "Idealization" :   romanticization, defense reaction, thought, defence, sentimentalisation, defence mechanism, sentimentalization, appreciation, idea, defense mechanism, psychopathology, defence reaction, glorification, idealisation, idealize, psychological medicine, psychiatry, defense, romanticisation, admiration



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