Glossary E
Glossary E
The Ego is in the Freudian theory the aspect of the personality involved in self-preservation activities, and directing instinctual drives (the id) into appropriate social channels.
Ego analysis refers to an alternative to traditional Psychoanalysis that is characterized by relative de-emphases on the role of the unconscious and the exploration of childhood experience and relative emphases on the adaptive functions of the ego, examples, perception, learning, memory and the exploration of contemporary problems in living.
Ego defense mechanisms refer to the strategies available to the ego for distorting the anxiety-provoking aspects of reality, thus making them more tolerable.
Deutsch: Ich-Erschöpfung / Español: Agotamiento del ego / Português: Esgotamento do ego / Français: Épuisement de l'ego / Italian: Esaurimento dell'ego
Ego Depletion in the psychology context refers to the idea that self-control or willpower draws upon a limited pool of mental resources that can be used up. When the energy for mental activities is low, self-control is typically impaired, which leads to a decrease in the ability to resist temptations or make rational decisions.
Ego development is defined as the fundamental changes in the ways in which our thoughts, values, morals, and goals are organized. Transitions from one stage to another depend on both internal biological changes and external social changes to which the person must adapt.
Ego Identity refers to the self -image formed during Adolescence that integrates our ideas of what we are and what we want to be.