yhteys|psykologia yksi persoonallisuuden osa psykoanalyysin persoonallisuusnäkemyksessä: minä
yhteys|arkikieltä käsitys itsestä, minuuskuva
Esimerkkejä:
AP:lla vaikuttaisi olevan ylipaisunut 'ego' ja ylemmyysfantasioita, jotka hänen pieni päänsä on kehittänyt kompensoidakseen huonoa itsetuntoa. (nettikeskustelua)
When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego. Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
puhekieltä the most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings
1954, Calvin S. Hall, “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.
et aut ego indigna fui illis aut illi mihi forsitan digni non fuerunt quia forsitan viro alio conservasti me (And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,)