Q: You often advise readers to not let our egos lead our decisions by being manipulated through criticism or flattery. Yet ...

What is the unconscious mind? All the drives we don't necessarily see, or understand, about ourselves. Sigmund Freud, the ...

The id is the wild black horse of passion pulling recklessly, the superego is the white horse of restraint tugging toward virtue, and the ego is the charioteer—struggling to keep both in check ...

Many conservatives see Donald Trump acting on impulse and Elon Musk enforcing a strict moral order — a dynamic best seen in the demolition of the nation’s foreign-aid agency.

An alter ego is literally another self, a second identity that a person takes on that is wholly separate and unique from their original self. Latin for “self” or “I,” the ego is one of ...

What do I want? What hurts my feelings? Obsessing over your identity feeds your ego and starves you of precious connections. No wonder a political defeat feels like a wound.

Plato once examined the competing impulses of human nature — reason, spirit and appetite — echoed later in Sigmund Freud’s id and superego theories.

There’s an academic exercise in psychology classes that asks students to take Sigmund Freud’s concept of the id, ego, and superego and apply it to characters from The Simpsons. Homer’s impulsiveness ...

The puzzle’s theme involves Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic personality theory, which says that the human psyche is split into three parts: the ID, the EGO and the superego.

Where superego was, Phillips’s work suggests, there ego shall be. Freud speaks not only of a superego, but also of an ego ideal. Unluckily for us, he never got around to drawing a firm line between ...

Ego psychology is a school of psychoanalysis that originated in Sigmund Freud's ego-id-superego model. After Freud, a number of prominent psychoanalytic theorists began to elaborate on Freud's ...

America’s Discord Looks Like a Job for the Superego It’s hard to run a sane civilization in an atmosphere of political hysteria and hallucination.