Psychiatry and Psychology

Ego

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.

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Abstract

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.

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2 entry terms
  • Egos
  • Self

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Indexing Annotation

EGOCENTRISM is also available

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History Note

68; SELF was heading 1965-68, was see under PERSONALITY 1963-64

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Previous Indexing

  • Defense Mechanisms (1966-1967)
  • Personality (1966-1967)
  • Psychoanalytic Theory (1966-1967)

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  1. F01.752w.747w.189w
  2. F02w.739.794w.206w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Ego. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004532. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004532
  2. Ego. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_(psychoanalysis)
  3. Ego. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4426116