All 23 Uses of
ego
in
Franny and Zooey
- I mean all the ego.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- All those egos running around feeling terribly charitable and warm.†
Chpt 1.2
- I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego.†
Chpt 1.2
- I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego.†
Chpt 1.2
- I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego.†
Chpt 1.2
- Ego, yes.†
Chpt 2.3
- For about a whole month, at least, whenever anybody said anything that sounded campusy and phony, or that smelled to high heaven of ego or something like that, I at least kept quiet about it.†
Chpt 2.3
- Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.†
Chpt 2.3
- You take a look around your college campus, and the world, and politics, and one season of summer stock, and you listen to the conversation of a bunch of nitwit college students, and you decide that everything's ego, ego, ego, and the only intelligent thing for a girl to do is to lie around and shave her head and say the Jesus Prayer and beg God for a little mystical experience that'll make her nice and happy.†
Chpt 2.3
- You take a look around your college campus, and the world, and politics, and one season of summer stock, and you listen to the conversation of a bunch of nitwit college students, and you decide that everything's ego, ego, ego, and the only intelligent thing for a girl to do is to lie around and shave her head and say the Jesus Prayer and beg God for a little mystical experience that'll make her nice and happy.†
Chpt 2.3
- You take a look around your college campus, and the world, and politics, and one season of summer stock, and you listen to the conversation of a bunch of nitwit college students, and you decide that everything's ego, ego, ego, and the only intelligent thing for a girl to do is to lie around and shave her head and say the Jesus Prayer and beg God for a little mystical experience that'll make her nice and happy.†
Chpt 2.3
- You keep talking about ego.†
Chpt 2.3
- My God, it would take Christ himself to decide what's ego and what isn't.†
Chpt 2.3
- This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.†
Chpt 2.3
- But you'd like your friend Professor Tupper's ego taken away from him.†
Chpt 2.3
- But don't go screaming about egos in general.†
Chpt 2.3
- In my opinion, if you really want to know, half the nastiness in the world is stirred up by people who aren't using their true egos.†
Chpt 2.3
- From what you say about him, anyway, I'd lay almost any odds that this thing he's using, the thing you think is his ego, isn't his ego at all but some other, much dirtier, much less basic faculty.†
Chpt 2.3
- From what you say about him, anyway, I'd lay almost any odds that this thing he's using, the thing you think is his ego, isn't his ego at all but some other, much dirtier, much less basic faculty.†
Chpt 2.3
- You think it was his ego that got him into television?†
Chpt 2.3
- He has no ego any more—if ever he had one.†
Chpt 2.3
- Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.†
Chpt 2.3
- Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.†
Chpt 2.3
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)