All 3 Uses of
ego
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Cranly closed his long thin-lipped mouth, communed with himself an instant and answered: —EGO HABEO.†
Chpt 5
- —QUIS EST IN MALO HUMORE, said Stephen, EGO AUT VOS?†
Chpt 5 *
- —EGO CREDO UT VITA PAUPERUM EST SIMPLICITER ATROX, SIMPLICITER SANGUINARIUS ATROX, IN LIVERPOOLIO.†
Chpt 5
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)