Ego Support
Semi jokingly . . .
I have something against the word ego, however I will make a serious attempt at this. I am not a big proponent of consciously feeding ones own ego for many different reasons I will not go into here . . . I am also someone who likes to point out that when it comes to the ego we should proceed with caution.
Synonyms for ego: self-esteem, self-importance, self-worth, self-respect, self-conceit, self-image, self-confidence; amour propre
I find some affinity with the the conscious mind, based on perception of the environment from birth onward: responsible for modifying the antisocial instincts of the id and itself modified by the conscience (superego) - but again I think there are possibly many better ways to understand what we are than the rotting corpse of Sigmund Freudâs primitive model.
Psychoanalysis: the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity.
Philosophy: (in metaphysics) a conscious thinking subject.
I have found that from more sophisticated models more elegance can be found - funny that - it turns out that the convoluted nature we have produced can be simplified drastically. Patterns âbiatchesâ are proving far superior to many if not all other models prior to the year 2000.
Seriously though . . .
This is an important topic . . . B U T . . . how we go about talking and thinking about it . . .
. . . has led to all sorts of flame-wars and the flamers are too numerous to count.
The desire to talk . . .
âBeyond theorizing, there are certainly various social passions and desires at play in most of our communications. My own idea on this would be: through talk or writ people are able to produce or maintain their self. And within a society obsessed with the notion â and upkeep â of a personal self and the freedoms related to that self, one needs to keep propagating it: self survival! If needed, indeed even through silly, void conversations. Including the act of tuning into those of others (like with radio or television). Even writing on a forum using philosophical topics will have that element of identity. At least Iâm quite aware of producing not only words or ideas but also a self-concept by doing so.â
Just donât ask me what the moral of the story is . . . ego(I) am lost . . .