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ego
Associated with
secondary process
, the
conscious
, and the
reality principle
, in psychoanalytic theory this term refers to the organized, rational division of the
psyche
.
Self-esteem
This term appears in...
psychoanalysis
psychodynamic psychotherapy
includes:
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auxiliary ego
body ego
counterego
effective ego
infantile ego
pleasure ego
preschizophrenic ego
purified pleasure ego
reality ego
reasonable ego
supportive ego
See also:
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alter ego
Ego (Gestalt glossary)
ego (Jungian glossary)
ego analysis
ego distortion
ego nucleus
id
perception ego
psychoanalysis
psychodynamic psychotherapy
regression in the service of the ego
self (psychoanalytic)
superego
Movies
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2 Days in Paris
A Chorus Line
A Face in the Crowd
A Letter to Three Wives
A Test of Wills
A Very Special Favor
Almost Christmas
An Affair to Remember
An Unmarried Woman
Anything Else
Article 99
Beaches
Beatriz at Dinner
Being the Ricardos
Big Eyes
Birdman
Blume in Love
Broadway Danny Rose
Broken Leg
Butterfield 8
Café Society (2016)
Carnage
Casino Jack
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie's Angels (2019)
Chi-Raq
Claire's Knee
Clerks
Copying Beethoven
Covert Action (1988)
Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
Daddy (2016)
Deep Impact
Design for Living
Desperate Hours (1990)
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Doctor Strange
Don't Look Up (2021)
Easy A
Elvis Found Alive
Explorers
Fading Gigolo
Finding Fanny
Garden State
Girls Trip
GoldenEye
Greenfingers
Hannah and Her Sisters
Harvey
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Hitch
House of Gucci
How to Commit Marriage
Husbands and Wives
In a Lonely Place
Iron Man 3
It Happened One Night
Jade
Joyful Noise
Jungle Fever
Kill Bill: Volume 1
King Richard
Kiss Me Kate
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Learning to Drive (2014)
Life as a House
Lila: Mantis in Lace
Local Hero
Love & Mercy
Loving Vincent
Magnolia
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Mr. Brooks
My Name Is Bill W.
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
No Time for Love
Nobel Son
OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
On the Edge
Open at Night
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
Out of the Past (1947)
Outrageous!
Overboard (2018)
Paul Williams Still Alive
Play It Again, Sam
Ratatouille
Reversal of Fortune
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Rounders
Sanjuro
Shaft (2019)
Sing (2016)
Skidoo
Sleeper
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokin' Aces
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Starship Troopers
Stealing Paradise
Teacher's Pet
Terms of Endearment
That Touch of Mink
The Bigamist (1953)
The Concert
The Couch Trip
The Dialogue: Bruce Joel Rubin
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
The Family That Preys
The First Wives Club
The Glass Castle (2017)
The Great Beauty
The Hippie Revolt (Something's Happening)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Kitchen (2019)
The Life of David Gale
The Locket
The Man Without a Face (1993)
The Men
The Midwife (2017)
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
The Philadelphia Story
The Post
The Runaways (2010)
The Voices
The Wind Rises
These Old Broads
Thunderball
To Rome with Love
Top Gun
Top Gun: Maverick
Total Recall
Trumbo (2015)
What a Way to Go!
What Dreams May Come
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Wild Hogs
Words and Pictures
Yellow Submarine