4 April 2013

ego

[ee-goh, eg-oh]
noun, plural e·gos.

1. the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
2. Psychoanalysis . the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physical environment.
3. egotism; conceit; self-importance: Her ego becomes more unbearable each day.
4. self-esteem or self-image; feelings: Your criticism wounded his ego.
5. (often initial capital letter) Philosophy .
a. the enduring and conscious element that knows experience.
b. Scholasticism. the complete person comprising both body and soul.

Example

If I did not have an ego I would not be here tonight
If I did not have an ego I might not think that I was right
If you did not have an ego you might not care the way you dressed
If you did not have an ego you’d just be like the rest

– Skyhooks, ‘Ego is not a dirty word‘.

Today’s aphorism

Yabba Dabba Doo!

– Fred Flintstone

On this day

4 April 1968 – assassination of Martin Luther King. American civil rights activist and clergyman.