[ee-goh, eg-oh] 
| 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. | Psychoanalysis. the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physical environment. |
| 3. | egotism; conceit; self-importance: Her ego becomes more unbearable each day. |
| 4. | self-esteem or self-image; feelings: Your criticism wounded his ego. |
| 5. | (often initial capital letter ) Philosophy.
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| 6. | Ethnology. a person who serves as the central reference point in the study of organizational and kinship relationships. |
| e·go (ē'gō, ěg'ō) n. pl. e·gos
[New Latin, from Latin, I; see eg in Indo-European roots. Sense 2, translation of German Ich, a special use of ich, I, as a psychoanalytic term.] |
The “I” or self of any person (ego is Latin for “I”). In psychological terms, the ego is the part of the psyche that experiences the outside world and reacts to it, coming between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social environment, represented by the superego.
Note: The term ego is often used to mean personal pride and self-absorption: “Losing at chess doesn't do much for my ego.”
"In the book of Egoism it is written, Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity." [George Meredith, "The Egoist" (1879)]
ego e·go (ē'gō, ěg'ō)
n.
In psychoanalytic theory, the division of the psyche that is conscious, most immediately controls thought and behavior, and mediates between the person and external reality.