Ego
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Risto Heiskala (0000-0003-4466-7491, Tampere University), Marita Husso (0000-0002-3714-8477, University of Jyväskylä) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos0745 |
| OpenAlex | W4252122132 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The origin of the word ego is the Latin first‐person pronoun ego , meaning “I.” In the current academic world, it is used mainly in psychology, social psychology, and microsociology. Its psychological use originates in Freud's structural model of superego, ego, and id. Several schools, of which ego psychology is the most influential, have developed it further. Microsociologists such as Goffman and social psychologists such as Mead have emphasized the social construction of ego identity in interaction. Although these lines of thought seldom meet, there are some synthetic attempts in the field of general social theory and feminist theory. The same sometimes occurs in studies of ego in relation to ethnicity and social class
Ego psychology · Field (mathematics · Id, ego and super-ego · Identity (music · Meaning (existential · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Relation (database · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |