overidealized

Mr. Fellini said he sought to liberate viewers from "overidealized concepts of life."

Even his unhappiest experiences have their amusing aspects: his first overidealized woman fell off her pedestal when, as a second-grader, she threw up "right in front of the whole class."

In their wake, Otto Kernberg highlighted the destructive qualities of the 'infantile, grandiose ego ideal' - of 'identification with an overidealized self- and object-representation, with the primitive form of ego-ideal'.