The human ego

[Geoff-Allen]

Hope you're all feeling okay.

What do you think of the human ego?

Is it the true cause of most of our emotional distress as human beings?

I did find an interesting video -

All the best!

 

[Axe Elf]

Strictly speaking, the ego is just our conception of ourselves--whatever that may be.

Colloquially, "ego" has come to connote arrogance, but that's not the original meaning as Freud used it.

Selfishness--THAT'S the true cause of most of our emotional distress as human beings.

 

[David T]

Hope you're all feeling okay.

What do you think of the human ego?

Is it the true cause of most of our emotional distress as human beings?

I did find an interesting video -

All the best!

Its amazing its the only known thing to both exist outside reality and is larger than reality!

 

[David T]

Selfishness--THAT'S the true cause of most of our emotional distress as human beings.

Staying in a freudian framework i totally agree. I keep telling my girlfriend when she says no thats totally selfish of her since she possesses magic i need!!! This causes me extreme stress emotional distress.

Btw language is constantly changing meaning. In the 1800s if one were to go out for an evening of awful intercourse that would not have sounded wierd. .since aweful was awe related and intercourse use to mean dialog conversation.

 

[PureX]

Strictly speaking, the ego is just our conception of ourselves--whatever that may be.

I think it's more than just a concept of self. It's the mechanism maintaining and protecting that conception of self. And if we do not learn how and why to subjugate that mechanism within ourselves, we cannot grow, or change.