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ego
has definitions from the field of psychoanalysis
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[ noun ] an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
Synonyms Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned_out to be frauds and phonies , it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many_another intelligent , well-informed American . (Mr. America, 4:6...)After_all , a guy 's gotta have a_little ego ! (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)He was not sure how much of this desire was_due to his devotion to the church and how much was his own ego , demanding to be satisfied , for the two were intertwined and could not be separated . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)`` The human ego being what it is '' , I put_in , `` science_fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a_thousand larger solar_systems than ours must look_like gigantic tube-nosed_fruit_bats . Related terms |
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[ noun ] your consciousness of your own identity
Synonyms Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)What had been an unmanageably powerful introject was now , despite its continuing charge of energy disconcerting to me , sufficiently within control of her ego that she could use it to show me what this introjected mother was like . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind
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