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Illustrating the Global Ego
In a previous post, I suggested that one of the most fundamental misunderstandings we humans labor under is that an ego is a part of ourselves. In psychoanalysis, for example, the ego is the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity. We think it's a part of who we are.
Instead, I think it’s more helpful to think of the ego as a construct, a conceptual entity each of us created in order to get along in life.
It’s essentially a story about ourselves as individuals. And it serves interests that are not ours.
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By Larry Gottlieb
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In a previous post, I suggested that one of the most fundamental misunderstandings we humans labor under is that an ego is a part of ourselves. In psychoanalysis, for example, the ego is the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity. We think it's a part of who we are.
Instead, I think it’s more helpful to think of the ego as a construct, a conceptual entity each of us created in order to get along in life.
It’s essentially a story about ourselves as individuals. And it serves interests that are not ours.