In Jungian theory (Carl Gustav Jung, 1875–1961), an unconscious mental image, usually an idealization, of an important person in one’s early history.
The internal unconscious representation of an important person in the individual’s life, particularly a parent.
In psychoanalysis, it refers to the childhood idea, which is only partially grounded in reality, of a parent or a beloved individual that is preserved in the subconscious mind and persists into adulthood.
The sexually developed adult phase of an insect.