Sample Sentences for
ego
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ego Freud's definition

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    In psychoanalysis, people are aware of only some of the actions of the ego.
    ego = the personality structure that mediates between the primitive, instinctual desires of the id and the moral conscience of the superego
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    I said I wanted an egg shampoo instead of an ego shampoo.  (source)
    ego = psychoanalysis personality structure; or the conscious mind
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    Then when you want free association, you could stretch your patient out the way the barber does to lather up his customer, and when the fifty minutes are up, you could tilt the chair forward again and hand him a mirror so he can see what he looks like on the outside after you've shaved his ego.  (source)
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Egg…. ego …. close, aren't they?  (source)
ego = psychoanalysis personality structure; or the conscious mind
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ego as in:  bruised her ego

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She has such an inflated ego; she probably thinks we planned the whole thing for her.
ego = sense of importance
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    Try not to bruise her ego while offering advice.
    ego = sense of self-esteem
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    I'm trying to think about this without letting my ego get in the way.
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    So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him. But I have a feeling his ego isn't going to go for that suggestion.  (source)
    ego = sense of self-esteem (sense of importance or ability)
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    They secured the Bird's approval by stroking his ego, naming him "master of ceremonies" and giving him a throne at the front of the "theater"—the bathhouse—outfitted with planks perched on washtubs to serve as a stage.  (source)
    ego = sense of self-esteem (sense of importance)
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    I never talked about Egos and Ids with Doctor Nolan.†  (source)
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    An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in egoless means without and reverses the meaning of ego. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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    I won't bruise his precious ego.  (source)
    ego = sense of self-esteem (sense of importance or ability)
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    Check egos at the door: When you discuss ideas, label them and write them down.†  (source)
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    He rises, returns to them, and dwells with them as an egoless center, through whom the principle of emptiness is made manifest in its own simplicity.†  (source)
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    "I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny." Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego--nothing to arouse either like or dislike.  (source)
    ego = self-esteem (sense of importance)
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    They carried with them their complete egos, and born of matter they do ever lust after the flesh.†  (source)
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    The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart.  (source)
    ego = sense of self-esteem (sense of importance or ability)
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    They had sympathized because it appealed to their egos, not because it was important for the race.†  (source)
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