| The ego's defence is to split off the aggression and to project it onto parental imagos who in turn threaten to destroy the child. |
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| The ego's perverted version of this noble drive is the desire for power and control, the urge to conquer the world. |
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| Is it just the ego's yearning for self-gratification that makes a person cling to the half-baked notion that every single human being is a unique individual? |
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| The ego's greatest triumph is to inveigle us into believing its best interests are our best interests, and even into identifying our very survival with its own. |
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| Tom Neuwirth, to give this gentleperson his birth name, chose his alter ego's title well. |
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