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单词 imago
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Definition of imago in English:

imago

nounPlural imagines, Plural imagos ɪˈmeɪɡəʊ
  • 1Entomology
    The final and fully developed adult stage of an insect, typically winged.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He stands apart from the new flight of British composers, ‘who seem very sure of themselves, like an imago, a butterfly that enters the world fully formed.’
    • The 7-rayed imago is approximately 1.5 mm diameter.
    • Almost instantly the larvae mutate into full grown imagos and you have yourself an Entopod battalion.
    • After a third larval stage they pupate in the nest material and emerge as imagos after the fledglings have left the nest.
    • The imago can become multiradiate at the time of metamorphosis, or it can be 5-rayed at metamorphosis and add the supernumerary rays during post larval growth stages.
  • 2Psychoanalysis
    An unconscious idealized mental image of someone, especially a parent, which influences a person's behaviour.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Back here, I briefly mentioned the idea of the imago.
    • They constitute a single set of systematic transfigurations of the Yagwoia transpersonal, archetypal imagos of their Self and its energies.
    • To be sure, in both Freudian and Lacanian accounts this scenario establishes the ‘first’ sexual relations: those attached to the imago of the mother and to the autoeroticism associated with narcissism.
    • The ego's defence is to split off the aggression and to project it onto parental imagos who in turn threaten to destroy the child.
    • Lacan's elaboration of the Jungian concept of the imago seems instructive here.

Origin

Late 18th century (in sense 1): modern Latin use of Latin imago 'image'. sense 2 dates from the early 20th century.

 
 

Definition of imago in US English:

imago

noun
  • 1Entomology
    The final and fully developed adult stage of an insect, typically winged.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He stands apart from the new flight of British composers, ‘who seem very sure of themselves, like an imago, a butterfly that enters the world fully formed.’
    • Almost instantly the larvae mutate into full grown imagos and you have yourself an Entopod battalion.
    • After a third larval stage they pupate in the nest material and emerge as imagos after the fledglings have left the nest.
    • The imago can become multiradiate at the time of metamorphosis, or it can be 5-rayed at metamorphosis and add the supernumerary rays during post larval growth stages.
    • The 7-rayed imago is approximately 1.5 mm diameter.
  • 2Psychoanalysis
    An unconscious idealized mental image of someone, especially a parent, which influences a person's behavior.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To be sure, in both Freudian and Lacanian accounts this scenario establishes the ‘first’ sexual relations: those attached to the imago of the mother and to the autoeroticism associated with narcissism.
    • The ego's defence is to split off the aggression and to project it onto parental imagos who in turn threaten to destroy the child.
    • Back here, I briefly mentioned the idea of the imago.
    • Lacan's elaboration of the Jungian concept of the imago seems instructive here.
    • They constitute a single set of systematic transfigurations of the Yagwoia transpersonal, archetypal imagos of their Self and its energies.

Origin

Late 18th century (in imago (sense 1)): modern Latin use of Latin imago ‘image’. imago (sense 2) dates from the early 20th century.

 
 
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