How do you use Ego in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like egotism or psyche, plus the exact meaning.
Ego in a sentence
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Ego meaning
- The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
- The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
- A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
Synonyms of Ego
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Using Ego
- The main meaning on this page is: The self, especially with a sense of self-importance. | The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings. | A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
- Useful related words include: egotism, psyche, brain, head.
- Possible Dutch translations are: ego.
- In the example corpus, ego often appears in combinations such as: alter ego, ego and, the ego.
Context around Ego
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ego
- In this selection, "ego" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, super, let, way, psychology, meaning and dissolution stand out and add context to how "ego" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a structured ego and are let ego be ego. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ego" sits close to words such as nazis, prediction and underwater, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ego
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The ego and the super-ego are both partly conscious and partly unconscious. (13 words)
Where impulses are, let ego be,” ego meaning reality, not the way ego is. (14 words)
Ego psychology Ego psychology was initially suggested by Freud in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926). (15 words)
When Anton Ego eats Remy's dish of ratatouille, he is transported back to his childhood and the food his mother made, it wasn't a crazy idea to believe that Remy might have learned to make the dish from Ego's actual mother. (44 words)
Freud, S. The Ego and the Id, Standard Edition 19, pp. 7, 23. The super-ego is the moral component of the psyche, which takes into account no special circumstances in which the morally right thing may not be right for a given situation. (44 words)
The rational ego attempts to exact a balance between the impractical hedonism of the id and the equally impractical moralism of the super-ego; it is the part of the psyche that is usually reflected most directly in a person's actions. (42 words)
Does the life world contextualize and thus compromise the gaze of the pure ego, or does the phenomenological method nonetheless raise the ego up transcendent? (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
Where impulses are, let ego be,” ego meaning reality, not the way ego is.
Hulk had to work with Ego's inner-ego to keep Galactus from consuming Ego the Living Planet.
And so if part of Passover is trying to leave your personal Egypt, that starts with the scouring of your ego and then the eradication of your ego.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the Guardians went up against the mighty Ego, and they actually fought inside Ego's planet-body to destroy his brain.
Well, you know, as much as I’m talking about ego dissolution, we have many cases of ego inflation coming out of psychedelic experience.
In Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1922), Freud argued that in collectives ‘the individual gives up his ego-ideal and substitutes it for the group-ideal’ which might be embodied in a leader, a flag, or a symbol.
When Anton Ego eats Remy's dish of ratatouille, he is transported back to his childhood and the food his mother made, it wasn't a crazy idea to believe that Remy might have learned to make the dish from Ego's actual mother.
If there is a ego thing, yeah just about any player that makes it to the NFL is an alpha with an ego and a QB in the NFL is that much more.
Conscious awareness resides in the ego, although not all of the operations of the ego are conscious.
Does the life world contextualize and thus compromise the gaze of the pure ego, or does the phenomenological method nonetheless raise the ego up transcendent?
Ego psychology Ego psychology was initially suggested by Freud in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926).
Freud, New Introductory Lectures p. 106 Developmentally, the id precedes the ego; i.e., the psychic apparatus begins, at birth, as an undifferentiated id, part of which then develops into a structured ego.
Freud, S. The Ego and the Id, Standard Edition 19, pp. 7, 23. The super-ego is the moral component of the psyche, which takes into account no special circumstances in which the morally right thing may not be right for a given situation.
Freud suggested that the demands of the super-ego "coincide with the precepts of the prevailing cultural super-ego.
From within this sphere, which Husserl enacts in order to show the impossibility of solipsism, the transcendental ego finds itself always already paired with the lived body of another ego, another monad.
One argument against Husserl's description works this way: instead of infinity and the Deity being the ego's gateway to the Other, as in Descartes, Husserl's ego in the Cartesian Meditations itself becomes transcendent.
The ego and the super-ego are both partly conscious and partly unconscious.
The mirror stage describes the formation of the Ego via the process of objectification, the Ego being the result of a conflict between one's perceived visual appearance and one's emotional experience.
The rational ego attempts to exact a balance between the impractical hedonism of the id and the equally impractical moralism of the super-ego; it is the part of the psyche that is usually reflected most directly in a person's actions.
These "Ego Psychologists" of the 1950s paved a way to focus analytic work by attending to the defenses (mediated by the ego) before exploring the deeper roots to the unconscious conflicts.
Common combinations with ego
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- alter ego 35×
- ego and 24×
- the ego 22×
- his ego 11×
- your ego 9×
- an ego 7×
- of ego 6×
- ego is 5×
- my ego 5×
- ego the 4×