{"id":7818,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ego\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:59","slug":"ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ego\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Freudian psychoanalytical theory, it is a feature of personality, developing during infancy, that operates on the basis of the reality principle. &nbsp;One of three components of the psychic apparatus, it is a way of seeking acceptable means of gratification in dealing with the real world. &nbsp;Originally derived by Freud from the German word <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ich<\/span>, it was transmuted to ego in translation, and came into colloquial use to mean something like self-esteem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"anhedonia\">Anhedonia<\/a>, <a href=\"id\">Id<\/a>, <a href=\"psychoanalysis\">Psychoanalysis<\/a>, <a href=\"pleasure-pain_principle\">Pleasure-pain principle<\/a>, <a href=\"psychodynamic_theory\">Psychodynamic theory<\/a>, <a href=\"reality_principle\">Reality principle<\/a>, <a href=\"self\">Self<\/a>, <a href=\"self-esteem\">Self-esteem<\/a>, Superego      <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Freudian psychoanalytical theory, it is a feature of personality, developing during infancy, that operates on the basis of the reality principle. &nbsp;One of three components of the psychic apparatus, it is a way of seeking acceptable means of gratification in dealing with the real world. &nbsp;Originally derived by Freud from the German word &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ego\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ego&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}