Normal view MARC view

Ego (Topical Term)

Preferred form: Ego
Used for/see from:
  • Self
  • n: Egos

no qualif; egocentrism: index DEFENSE MECHANISMS

The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality.

68; SELF was heading 1965-68, was see under PERSONALITY 1963-64

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