A few days ago, a person I genuinely admire Manifestation
Code System Review made a public statement that confounded me, he said "I have been on the spiritual path for such a long time that I have almost no ego left." This set me thinking. Is that ever possible for the most deserving of human beings even if there has been a dedicated focussed approach to spiritual growth.
What is Ego? Apart from being a much maligned word used ever so often in various workshops and so often used as an adjective to signify something deplorable, contemptuous or opprobrious in a person. In simple words, isn't it just a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance? Isn't it just that part of the mind that mediates between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind and is responsible for imparting a sense of personal identity?
In Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche, the Id, efo and super-ego are three parts of the psychic apparatus, of which the ego is the realistic part that mediates between the id and the super-ego. The ego is the organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions. Conscious awareness resides in the ego, although not all of the operations of the ego are conscious.
What is Ego? Apart from being a much maligned word used ever so often in various workshops and so often used as an adjective to signify something deplorable, contemptuous or opprobrious in a person. In simple words, isn't it just a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance? Isn't it just that part of the mind that mediates between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind and is responsible for imparting a sense of personal identity?
In Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche, the Id, efo and super-ego are three parts of the psychic apparatus, of which the ego is the realistic part that mediates between the id and the super-ego. The ego is the organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions. Conscious awareness resides in the ego, although not all of the operations of the ego are conscious.
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