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Ethics in psychoanalysis has been important matter since the beginning years of the psychoanalysis. Ethics principles that it is expected psychoanalysts obey were discussed at some length during the long formative years of the psychoanalysis. Even if the technical concepts (neutrality, abstinence and therapeutic alliance) regarding psychoanalytic practice are taken in hand in the matter of ethics, they also refer an ideal professional practice. The term ideal connotes the ego ideal concept. At the same time, the ego ideals in addition to the superego have an important link with the ethics values. In this article, it was tried to discuss the ego ideal concept that has an important association with the ethics and the psychoanalyst's ego ideal and the psychoanalytical group's ideals by going forward on this concept.