Ego - Topics

Ego death stories from psychedelics describe what mystics called losing yourself Freud's ego was a mediator between the id and reality and not a synonym for arrogance Two people with identical facts and different egos cannot agree Learning a new skill in front of other people is hardest for adults because of ego Descartes put a thinker behind every thought and four centuries of looking for that thinker have not gone well Asking for help costs the ego more than it costs money Seniority makes an apology feel like a demotion A bruised ego heals faster if you say the humiliation out loud Driving is where the mildest people turn into tyrants A public apology is image repair performed in front of the audience that watched the damage A conception of the self with no room for unconscious motives will spend its time explaining away behaviour The argument you will not drop is usually about status and not about being right Ego inside a marriage shows up as who gets to be the one who was right Defensive self-esteem is usually an identity being protected rather than a feeling being soothed The boss who cannot be wrong makes everyone around them worse at the job If the self is only a story what exactly is a court punishing when it punishes a person? Nobody says my ego was hurt and everybody acts like it The same questionnaire measures self-esteem and narcissism well enough to confuse them The identity you are proudest of is the one whose criticism lands hardest