Idealization /(?)/

I·de·al·i·za·tion

Idealization

n.
  1. The act or process of idealizing.
  2. The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal. (Fine Arts)
  3. A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad.
  4. something that exists only as an idea.
  5. a protrayal of something as ideal.