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  2. Alter ego - Wikipedia

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    An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other self, one with a different personality. Additionally, the altered states of the ego may themselves be referred to as alterations.

  3. Id, ego and superego - Wikipedia

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    According to Freud as well as ego psychology the id is a set of uncoordinated instinctual needs; the superego plays the moralizing role via internalized experiences; and the ego is the perceiving, logically organizing agent that mediates between the id's instinctual desires, the demands of external reality and those of the critical superego; [3 ...

  4. Category:Alter egos - Wikipedia

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    An alter ego (from Latin, "other I") is another self, a second personality or persona within a person. The term is commonly used in literature analysis and comparison to describe characters who are psychologically identical.

  5. Self psychology - Wikipedia

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    Essential to understanding self psychology are the concepts of empathy, selfobject, mirroring, idealising, alter ego/twinship and the tripolar self. Though self psychology also recognizes certain drives, conflicts, and complexes present in Freudian psychodynamic theory , these are understood within a different framework.

  6. Loevinger's stages of ego development - Wikipedia

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    Loevinger describes the ego as a process, rather than a thing; [6] it is the frame of reference (or lens) one uses to construct and interpret one's world. [6] This contains impulse control and character development with interpersonal relations and cognitive preoccupations, including self-concept. [7]

  7. Self in Jungian psychology - Wikipedia

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    The Self in Jungian psychology is a dynamic concept which has undergone numerous modifications since it was first conceptualised as one of the Jungian archetypes. [ 1 ] Historically, the Self , according to Carl Jung , signifies the unification of consciousness and unconsciousness in a person, and representing the psyche as a whole. [ 2 ]

  8. Host (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology and mental health, the host is the most prominent personality, state, or identity in someone who has dissociative identity disorder (DID) [1] (formerly known as multiple personality disorder). [1] The other personalities, besides the host, are known as alter personalities, or just "alters". [2]

  9. True self and false self - Wikipedia

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    Freud's own late theory of the ego as the product of identifications [12] came close to viewing it only as a false self; [13] while Winnicott's true/false distinction has also been compared to Michael Balint's "basic fault" and to Ronald Fairbairn's notion of the "compromised ego". [14]