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Ego

Zen Calculus

September 15, 2009

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about ego deflation in the last couple of days.  I was speaking with a friend of mine this evening, and she passed along this aphorism:  “10% of life is what happens to us, 90% is our reaction to it.” Now, what I’m wondering is if we follow the “kill [...]

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My Ego

February 13, 2009

Sigmund Freud, the famous psychoanalyst, split the personality into three parts:  the id, the ego, and the superego.  Whether I agree with him on this is immaterial for the purposes of this post; I’m simply going to identify these characteristics within myself, specifically regarding my ego. The id and superego are relatively easily explained.  Id [...]

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