The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality.

Annotation

EGOCENTRISM is also available

DUI

D004532 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0007131

Previous indexing

Personality (1966-1967); Defense Mechanisms (1966-1967); Psychoanalytic Theory (1966-1967)

History note

68; SELF was heading 1965-68, was see under PERSONALITY 1963-64

Online note

use EGO to search SELF 1969-75 & SELF CONCEPT 1966-68

Public note

68; SELF was heading 1965-68, was see under PERSONALITY 1963-64