What type of Ego do you have?

Question

The id: It stands in direct opposition to the super-ego

Ego: Its task is to find a balance between primitive drives, morals, and reality while satisfying the id and superego

Super-Ego: tends to stand in opposition to the desires of the id because of their conflicting objectives, and is aggressive towards the ego.

Alter Ego: is a second self, a second personality or persona within a person.

Consciousness: is a characteristic of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment.

Egolessness: is an emotional state where one feels no ego (or self); of having no distinct being apart from the world around oneself.

Answer 1

I am Alter Ego, I am aware of my surroundings but at the same time I can come out of my self and go into my spiritual self.

Answer 2

In modern-day society, ego has many meanings. It could mean one’s self-esteem; an inflated sense of self-worth; or in philosophical terms, one’s self. However, according to the psychologist Sigmund Freud, the ego is the part of the mind which contains the consciousness. Originally, Freud had associated the word ego to meaning a sense of self; however, he later revised it to mean a set of psychic functions such as judgement, tolerance, reality-testing, control, planning, defense, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory.

Some 5 years ago I happened to attend a 10 days camp where I was placed out of circulation of the world activities and asked to concentrate on inner self and experience the pulsating sensations in the various parts of the body while meditating. Then we were asked to ignore any feelings of pains or pleasure and just watch it as a third person. It was later experienced that when we just watched the pain or the pleasure feeling for say 5 minutes or less it vanished. Applied to the practice I have observed that when there are ego clashes if you just keep calm and just watch for 5 minutes or less without reacting to it it subsides. This practice has helped me to avoid many arguments as well as clashes of egos. When my socalled ego used to overpower me this practice has helped me to overpower the ego. But I do not feel that it is an egolessness state in the sense that I very much feel the existance of distinct beings but at the same time I just hold myself apart for the time being so that the emotions surpass and I feel at peace.

Answer 3

Consciousness: is a characteristic of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment.

Answer 4

I prefer the more common definition, whereas you have presented the Freudian one. My "ego" in the sense of my self-identity, self-worth, is like my sun sign, Pisces: swimming in both directions at once. I am aware that my IQ is high, but it does not impress me as much as it does some of the people I meet. I have a reasonably good command of the English language, but don't know **** about any other language. I have a lousy memory, but a good forgettery. And a reasonably good sense of humor as long as you don't push my buttons. I'm a loyal friend up to a point, but I tend to be selfish at times. And I do have a rather nasty temper: "rhymes with rich", indeed!

Don't ask me about looks.

Answer 5

Dear Brother

There is a Famous Saying of Holy Saints.

"Die before your death"

.In arabic it is " Moothoo Qabla Un Tamoothoo"

This is a parable, which states; kill your ego put your ego to death, before your actual death occurs.

This is a Salvation of self, without which individual peace and serenity cannot be achieved.

Most of the problems in a family, and the world are due to Ego, which overcomes all the reasons, justifications and neglects the rights of others.

May Allah God keep all of us on the right path. Amen.

Answer 6

I read Matt Ruff's 'Set This House In Order' - a novel dealing very skilfully with at least two people suffering Multiple Personality Disorder.
An excellent read, by the way.
So when I contemplate a question as above, as much as I like Freud's nicely packaged terminologies, I don't really see them any different to MPD personalities.
I'm please to say my consciousness and ego are balanced harmoniously enough; I try to keep a happy equilibrium going but the others do rear their heads at times and try to control me, however, I don’t fear them as they only exist in my mind … according to Freud.
Sound crazy? Maybe I am but at least I don't see, talk to and pray to invisible sky critters - now that's just out and out insanity, don't you agree? LOL

Answer 7

Ah, Freud! I have very little ego however I definitely have a consciousness. Guess that puts me in a category all of my own. Then again, Freudian psychology has been questioned as pure bunk.

Answer 8

My ego is very differential. I have an ego , but do not have an ego with all. Sometimes i do not care for the ego with ppl whom i care for at other times i have an ego where my colleagues are concerned.

Answer 9

When I do organisational dynamics consulting I do it from a gestalt framework, so I would have to say consciousness, but I would have to let the alter-ego out to play every one in a while.

Answer 10

Consciousness