It’s that ego, in Latin means me.
In psychology, it is called the psychic instance through which the person recognises himself as “I” and is aware of his own “identity.”
That is to say, it is the central part of the consciousness that has the task to give the sense of “itself”. According to the books, the ego activity organises the conscious activity that consists of conscious thoughts, memories, perceptions and feelings.
“Everything that happens to you is measured by your ego.”
Psychologist Fernanda Glaser explains that …show more content…
In other words, it costs him to understand an ego that is not his”
This would happen because the “I” or ego seeks to satisfy their own needs and motivations, losing sight of those of the outside world, which can almost always affect significant relationships as partners, work and also friends, family.
Now, how is it formed?
Fernanda Glaser responds: “Generally it is constituted from the perception that another has on me, it almost always begins with the mother who is the one who serves as a ‘mirror’ for the baby in the early years.”
The problem is when this formation occurs in such a way that the subject becomes the object of desire and is what happens in narcissistic personalities that are the product of a personal development, “that instead of wanting another, Himself and his self-configures himself according to the libido that circulates in his own imaginary and what he or she thinks that the others think of him or her, being able to acquire paranoid traits, etc. ”
He adds that, in general, narcissists are subjects who lose the proportion of their self and this becomes the centre of the person’s psychic