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An imago is the last (or adult) stage of development of an insect. The Latin word imago, imaginis meants "image, likeness, form." It comes from Proto-Indo-European *aim-, *aiem-, *iem- (“similarity, resemblance”). Cognate with Sanskrit (yamá, "pair, twin"), Old English emn, efn ("equal, level, even"). More at even.

Imago may also refer to:

Psychology

• Imago (journal), psychoanalytic periodical under the editorial direction of Sigmund Freud
• American Imago, academic journal founded in 1939 by Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs
• 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

Latin phrases

• Imago clipeata, usually used in reference to the images of heroes on Roman shields
• Imago Dei, a Latin phrase meaning the "Image of God"
• Imagines (plural), funeral masks; see Roman funerals and burial#Imagines

Poetry

• Imago, used in W. H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939"
• "Imago", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1996 book The Coral Sea

Fiction

• Imago, the title of a science fiction novel by Octavia Butler
• Imago, a mutant fly-like boss in Metroid: Zero Mission.
• Imago, the ability to utilize the two-way brain-computer_interface in Dennō_Coil

Music

• Imago (album), an album by The Butterfly Effect, released in 2006
• Imago (band), a Filipino pop rock band
• Imago Records, an independent record label active in the early 1990s
• Imago (Catharsis album)
  • Imago (Имаго), the Russian version of the 2nd album
• Imago (Rovo album), by Rovo
• Umbra et imago, German gothic Darkwave rock act formed in 1991
• "Imago (Homines Partus)", a song by Pain of Salvation from BE

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

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *imā + -āgō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym- (“to imitate”). Cognate with imitor, aemulus, Sanskrit यम (yáma, “pair, twin”), Old English emn, efn (“equal, level, even”). More at even.