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

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Ego  

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  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • 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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  • Moi

    French

  • Ego

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-L0VR5VJ1-9

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