The Only Use
ego
in
Of Mice and Men
(Edited)
- "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 part of the personality that mediates between the primitive, instinctual desires of the id and the moral conscience of the superego
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(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.