Both Uses of
ego
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos.†
Chpt 6 *
- He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the Ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable, and of one essence.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(ego Freud's definition) psychoanalysis: the personality structure that mediates between the primitive, instinctual desires of the id and the moral conscience of the superego
more rarely, ego can refer to the conscious mind (since in Freud's theory, a person is partially aware of the mental activity of the ego, but not of the id and superego)