Ideal-Ego:

The ideal-ego, a concept primarily from Lacanian psychoanalysis, it is an idealized, aspirational, and consistent self-image that we present to the world. It’s also a narcissistic illusion that symbolically secures our self-image to gain recognition from others and cover over real or perceived pain, fragile egos, and lack of empathy. The ego ideal is the symbolic point that the ideal-ego performs for; the ideal ego is the imaginary image that is sustained by the symbolic gaze of the ego ideal.