ego

It is realised that calculations based on self-portraits favour the social representation of the most prolific artists, who maybe were those with the greatest egos.

But the participants had different cultural sensibilities, tall egos, and wide ambitions, which provoked and prolonged their quarrel.

Are we to suppose that they represent respectively the protagonist's ego and alter-ego?

These observations lend credibility to the language ego per meability theor y and its emphasis on inhibition.

In the absence of subjectively perceived personal maladjustment, women at high ego development did reflect relatively positive affective experiences in their maternal roles.

A preference for cloning might be based, not solely on male ego, but also on a desire to avoid the problems associated with thirdparty reproduction.

This suggests that the petty networks included a larger number of people whose only contact was to ego, the anchoring individual.

It is dogma to assume that freely choosing to override our perceived ultimate reproductive interests necessarily involves ego-protective self-deceptions and false rationalisations.

This is part of the pattern of depersonalization and diminishing the ego.

The loss is a loss of part of the self (memory, intellect and other aspects of ego functioning).

What is true for nonequivalent solid representations also holds for our alter egos, those computer programs we write that employ such models.

This is the way the individual professional super-ego grows.

In the psychoanalytic or psychodynamic idea tradition, these types of defense mechanisms, or "ego controls," are considered to be activated to regulate emotional stress.

The ego crisis, therefore, is presented as a split rather than as an emaciated body tending towards self-effacing withdrawal into collectivity.

Such patients typically rely on primitive ego defenses such as noncompliance, boisterous or defiant behavior, massive uncooperativeness, and threatening the caretakers.