Both Uses of
ego
in
Childhood's End
- They had sympathized because it appealed to their egos, not because it was important for the race.†
Chpt 15 *
- They had preserved their individually, their independent egos; they possessed self-awareness and the pronoun "I" had a meaning in their language.†
Chpt 23
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)