Ego

Ego

Ego is a Latin word meaning "I", cognate with the Greek "Εγώ (Ego)" meaning "I", often used in English to mean the "self", "identity" or other related concepts.

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Famous quotes containing the word ego:

    “Pleasure in irony ... is an ego trip.”
    —Jessamyn West (1907–1984)

    “Since [Rousseau’s] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.”
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)