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:

    “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)

    “No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man’s ego like an automobile.”
    —Sir William Rootes (1894–1964)

    “The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.”
    —Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)