Imago (disambiguation)

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Imago may refer to:

Biology

• Imago, an entomological term for the last (or adult) stage of development of an insect

Psychology

• Imago, psychoanalytic periodical (originally titled 'Eros and Psyche') published in Vienna, under the editorial direction of Sigmund Freud, between 1912 and 1937
• American Imago, academic journal founded in 1939 by Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs, seeks to explore the role of psychoanalysis in contemporary cultural, literary, and social theory
• A term coined by Carl Jung to describe a way that people form their personality by identifying with the collective unconscious
• Imago Therapy or Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT), a form of marriage therapy founded by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D
• Imago often refers to often the idealized image of a person, usually a parent, formed in childhood and persisting unconsciously into adulthood.

Latin phrases

• Imago clipeata, literally translated from Latin means framed portrait, usually used in reference to the images of heroes on Roman shields
• Imago Dei, a Latin phrase meaning the "Image of God", the concept stated in the first book of Moses, (Genesis 1:26), that human beings are created in God's image

Poety

• Imago is used in W. H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939": "Find what occurred at Linz,/What huge imago made/A psychopathic god:"

Fiction

• Imago is the title of a science fiction novel by Octavia Butler, part of her Xenogenesis series.

Music

• Imago (album), the second full-length album by the Brisbane (Australia) band The Butterfly Effect, released in 2006
• Imago (band), a Filipino pop rock band
• Imago (Catharsis album), the second full-length album by the Russian Power Metal band Catharsis, released in English (2002)
  • Imago (Имаго), the third full-length album by the Russian Power Metal band Catharsis, released in 2003, a Russian language twin to the 2002 English language album
• Imago Records, a defunct music label
• Imago (Rovo album), an album by the Japanese instrumental rock band Rovo.
• Imago Mortis, a doom metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil formed in 1995
• Umbra et imago, German gothic Darkwave rock act formed in 1991

Arts

• Imago Theatre is a performance art company located in Portland, Oregon.
• Imago Film Productions is a new media production company located in Burbank, California.

Other

• Imago Scientific Instruments is a Madison, Wisconsin-based company that produces atom probe tomographs.
• Imago is a typeface designed by Günter Gerhard Lange in 1982.
• Imago Services is the name of the company in charge of catering facilities at Loughborough University in England.