What is an ego?

Answer 1

Nowadays it is used kind of as.. like.. confidence or personality.. or somethign, but the real meaning.. In psychodynamic theory, the component of personality that tries to satisfy the wishes of the id while being responsive to the dictates of the superego. So basically there the superego, the ego and the id. The superego wants you to conform to what you are told is right. Aka, the law, what your parents would want you to do. The id which goes by the pleasure principle. In other words, you do what you want. The ego is the peace maker between the two. Finding a happy medium between following the rules and doing wha tyou want.

Answer 2

The ego is your consciousness of your own identity, or the conscious mind. Basically, your ego is related to your confidence level; if you have a big ego, your confidence is high, and visa versa. Additionally, having an ego can mean having an inflated feeling of pride or self-worth.

Answer 3

An ego is that aspect of us that says I, me, my and mine. It is our false identity which makes us believe that we are the one who we see in the mirror. But that one is constantly changing. It was a small baby and even before being born it was alive in the mother's womb as the zygote. It started as a single cell. One day this body will die, then who is the one who said I? Therefore the ego is that existence of us which is caused by ignorance. It is our ignorance that makes us believe we are the one that has a name, we are the body and the mind, we have possessions and relationships. This is the ego. It is nothing but ignorance.

Answer 4

After Freud, a number of prominent psychoanalytic theorists began to elaborate on Freud's functionalist version of the ego. They put much effort into theorizing the ego's various functions and how they can be impaired in psychopathology. Much of their work focused around strengthening the ego so it could better cope with the pressures from the id, super-ego, and society in general. The central functions of the ego were traditionally seen as reality-testing, impulse-control, judgment, affect tolerance, defense, and synthetic functioning. An important conceptual revision to Freud's structural theory was made when Heinz Hartmann argued that the healthy ego includes a sphere of autonomous ego functions that are independent of mental conflict. Memory, motor coordination, and reality-testing, for example, ought to be able to function without the intrusion of emotional conflict. According to Hartmann, psychoanalytic treatment aims to expand the conflict-free sphere of ego functioning. By doing so, Hartmann believed, psychoanalysis facilitates adaptation, that is, more effective mutual regulation of ego and environment.

Answer 5

In Latin, 'ego' means 'I'. For the English translation, ego is the belief in one's self, usually an exaggerated feeling of pride and superiority over others.

Answer 6

ego function is a function that may be caused due to someone annoying you or anything that could annoy you ego functions aids the body from being upset.

Answer 7

The ego status refers to the cognitive and behavioural problems that is associated with a person.