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- Dictionaryidealization/ʌɪˌdɪəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/
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- 1. the action of regarding or representing something as perfect or better than in reality: "her idealization of childhood as a time of innocence"
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Psychoanalytic theory posits that an individual unable to integrate difficult feelings mobilizes specific defenses to overcome these feelings, which the individual perceives to be unbearable. The defense that effects (brings about) this process is called splitting. Splitting is the tendency to view events or people as either all bad or all good. When viewing people as all good, the individual is s... Wikipedia