Idealization

(noun.) a portrayal of something as ideal; 'the idealization of rural life was very misleading'.

(noun.) something that exists only as an idea.

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

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• Later it led to any idealization of existing institutions as themselves the embodiment of reason. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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