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Freud used the term idealization in reference to a variety of concepts. Subsequent authors, not always specifying their meanings, have tended to apply the term to only one or only some of these concepts. This paper surveys Freud's explicit and implicit references to idealization in the context of compatible and integrated psychoanalytic theories of drives and of object relations.