Ego psychology — is a school of psychoanalysis rooted in Sigmund Freud s structural id ego superego model of the mind.An individual interacts with the external world as well as responds to internal forces. Many psychoanalysts use a theoretical construct called… … Wikipedia
ego — /ee goh, eg oh/, n., pl. egos. 1. the I or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought. 2. Psychoanal. the part of the psychic apparatus that… … Universalium
Ego death — is an experience sometimes undergone by psychonauts, mystics, shamans, monks, psychologists, and others interested in exploring the depths of the mind.The practice of ego death as a deliberately sought mystical experience in some ways overlaps,… … Wikipedia
ego psychology — n. the study of the adaptive and mediating functions of the ego and their role in personality development and emotional disorder … English World dictionary
ego — In psychoanalysis, one of the three components of the psychic apparatus in the freudian structural framework, the other two being the id and superego. Although the e. has some conscious components, many of its functions are learned and automatic … Medical dictionary
ego psychology — a school of neo Freudian psychology holding that the ego has autonomous energy and functions independently. * * * … Universalium
Id, ego, and super-ego — are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud s structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction mental life is described. According to this model, the… … Wikipedia
Id, ego and super-ego — For other uses of ego and id, see Ego (disambiguation) and ID (disambiguation). Superego redirects here. For the Superego Podcast, see Superego Podcast. Structural model redirects here. For structural models in economics, see Economic model. For… … Wikipedia
Psychoanalysis — is a body of ideas developed by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud and his followers, which is devoted to the study of human psychological functioning and behavior. It has three applications: 1) a method of investigation of the mind; 2) a… … Wikipedia
human behaviour — Introduction the potential and expressed capacity for physical, mental, and social activity during the phases of human life. Human beings, like other animal species, have a typical life course that consists of successive phases of… … Universalium
