Idealization of parents is an inherent part of early childhood. However, rigid and sustained idealization may yield a host of emotional difficulties, including proneness to anger.

Idealization is linked with love-bombing and narcissism. Vincent’s desire for Louisa to be his long-fantasized version of herself led to excessive proclamations of her perfection, talent and grace.

Summer romances, those intense relationships that arise between July and August, are not just a romantic cliche: ...

Idealization in love says, "more is possible," that is, more than I can achieve on my own. However, the long-term fate of idealized love is variable.

Xavier de Donato Rodríguez, Idealization, Abduction, and Progressive Scientific Change, Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, SEGUNDA EPOCA, Vol. 22, No. 3 ...

Idealization This phase (which often happens most strongly during the early stages of dating or a relationship) consists of putting you on a pedestal, making you the center of his or her world ...

We then confront the compatibility problem of infinite idealization with scientific realism. We propose and defend a contextualist position for (local) realism and argue that the cases for infinite ...

The idealization of the West sold. Chinese consumers chose European worldliness and an Italian brand name over domestic “tackiness.” Many similar instances of proximity to whiteness, falsely equated ...