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Ego



Ego (Latin: “I”), psychological concept, first proposed by Sigmund Freud, referring to a part of the human personality that mediates between the id, or instinct, and the superego, or conscience. The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense.



See also: Psychoanalysis.

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