All 3 Uses of
ego
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It's nothing but a delusion to flatter your own ego and to hurt other people by flaunting your superiority over them.†
Chpt 2.4
- It is an act that forces him to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and to accept his real ego as.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- The ego you seek, that essential 'you' which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you've impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your 'feeling.'†
Chpt 3.7
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)