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the part of you convinced the universe is taking notes.
means The sense of self — your conscious identity, self-worth, or self-importance, depending on how inflated it's gotten.
from Straight from Latin ego, simply meaning "I." It sat quietly as an ordinary pronoun for centuries until the early 20th century, when it was drafted into English psychology — most famously by translators of Freud, who used it to render his German das Ich ("the I") as the mediating self between raw desire and conscience. From the clinic it slipped into everyday speech, where it now mostly means an "I" that's grown too fond of itself.
- freud's term
- actually called 'das Ich'—just German for 'the I'
- latin roots
- literally means 'I' in Latin
- survival job
- mediates between desire, conscience, and reality
- death by feedback
- shrinks fastest when no one's watching
kanye west — rapper who legally changed his name to ye in 2021, famously declared 'i am a god'
elon musk — tesla ceo who claims to have single-handedly revolutionized multiple industries, tweets constantly about his accomplishments
donald trump — 45th us president known for self-aggrandizing statements, uses superlatives about himself constantly