inner child

inner child
a) The childlike aspect of a persons psyche — typically, the personality and the memories of ones childhood — especially in context of coexisting with, and being suppressed by, an adultlike aspect of the person.
b) A metaphorical child who is the personification of the inner child of a person.

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