The Only Use of
ego
in
Of Mice and Men
- "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.p. 81.1ego = self-esteem (sense of importance)
Definitions:
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(1)
(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) -
(2)
(ego as in: bruised her ego) one's sense of self-esteem (sense of importance or ability)
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, ego can be a synonym for self.