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The ego from a psychological perspective

The ego from a psychological perspective

The psychological construct that is the ego is a part of you that you’ve built to move around in the social world. This means that it’s possible to have a healthy ego.

The opposite, then, is also true. You might be co-existing with a psychological entity that’s desperately trying to feed off the external world, desperately seeing recognition and attention.

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A healthy ego

The ego isn't either good or bad. It's part of you, a subjective concept that you build yourself.

  • It helps you understand that everyone deserves respect and that satisfaction stems from tolerance and self-care.
  • Balance comes from good self-esteem. It helps you...

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The spiritual, mystic, and Buddhist perspective on the ego

  • Buddhists believe that the ego is an incorrect conception of the self. It comes to you at birth and integrates your image, identity, nationality, passions, culture, education, and beliefs. We become attached to these processes, they hide your authenticity.
  • Th...

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Philosophy and the concept of the ego

In his book, The Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant explained that the ego collects every construct and mental representation that the individual carries out. Jean Paul-Sartre , for his part, had a very similar conception of the ego.

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What‘s the ego?

The concept of the ego, a term that comes from the Latin word for “I”, is one of the aspects of personality that people talk about the most . The most common definition of ego is haughtiness or arrogance, a self-image. That being said, it’s still just another mental construct, an...

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Sigmund Freud‘s legacy

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis believed that human beings are subjected to three counter-opposing forces that determine how they act and respond to the world. These forces are the ego, the id, and the super id.

Freud argued tha...

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The effects of a distorted ego

This makes you feel as if you’re constantly lacking something. This reflects a mind obsessed with knowing what others think. This is the kind of gaze that looks out into the world with fear. It’s being afraid to fail, not being loved, disappointing your parents, and having fewer ...

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