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Keywords: Ambivalent, Protrayal, Portrayal, Representation, Psychiatry
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The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
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A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad.
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something that exists only as an idea.
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a protrayal of something as ideal.
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the act of creating the perfect form of something
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a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
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