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Psychological Phenomena > Psychological Theory > Psychoanalytic Theory > Ego
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Personality > Personality Development > Ego

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Ego  

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  • Self

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  • EGOCENTRISM is also available

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

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

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004532

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