Ego ideal

The ego ideal (German: Ideal-Ich) is the inner image of oneself as one wants to become. Alternatively, 'The Freudian notion of a perfect or ideal self housed in the superego', 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'.
In the French strand of Freudian psychology, the ego ideal (or ideal ego, German: Ich-Ideal) has been defined as "an image of the perfect self towards which the ego should aspire."
Freud, ego ideal, and superego
In Freud's "On Narcissism: an Introduction" [1914], among other innovations - 'most important of all perhaps - it introduces the concepts of the "ego ideal" and of the self-observing agency related to it, which were the basis of what was ultimately to be described as the "super-ego" in The Ego and the Id (1923b)'. Freud considered that the ego ideal was the heir to the narcissism of childhood...