Ego
| Definition: |
The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality. |
| Notes: |
no qualif; egocentrism: index DEFENSE MECHANISMS |
| Also Called: |
Self |
| Previously Indexed: |
Defense Mechanisms (1966-1967),Personality (1966-1967),Psychoanalytic Theory (1966-1967) |
Ego Categories.
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Reality Testing - The individual's objective evaluation of the external world and the ability to differentiate adequately between it and the internal world; considered to be a primary ego function. |
Ego Definitions and Terms
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