Both Uses of
ego
in
The Da Vinci Code
- The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart.†
Chpt 27-28 *
- But Collet would be damned if Fache's ego landed him in front of a Ministerial Review Board for negligent police procedure.†
Chpt 65-66
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)