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Originally Posted by The Cloud  The problem is that everything that can be said is a concept, "I" no more or less than "ego." |
Hi Cloud. To be honest I don't agree with you on this.
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The word ego is taken directly from Latin, where it is the nominative of the first person singular personal pronoun and is translated as "I myself" to express emphasis. The Latin term ego is used in English to translate Freud's German term Das Ich, which literally means "the I".
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The ego is a concept of self whereas "I" am the conceived, in the form of a human being. The ego concept is used to understand all parts of self and to recognize who this unique human-being truly is.
The problem with the concept is when the 'nasty' traits are blamed on the ego. It's much easier to say '
your ego is too proud' or '
your ego hates being controlled' etc. rather than
'you'.
The ego is made the scapegoat and absolves self from taking responsibility. As the ego and "I" are one and the same, why do we do this to ourselves?
