According to psychoanalytic theory, neuroses may be rooted in ego defense mechanisms, but the two concepts are not synonymous.

Originally, Freud used the word ego to mean a sense of self, but later revised it to mean a set of psychic functions such as judgment, tolerance, reality testing, control, planning, defense, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory.

To overcome this the ego employs defense mechanisms.

Ego defense mechanisms are often used by the ego when id behavior conflicts with reality and either society's morals, norms, and taboos or the individual's expectations as a result of the internalization of these morals, norms, and their taboos.

The right of self-defense ( according to U. S. law ) ( also called, when it applies to the defense of another, alter ego defense, defense of others, defense of a third person ) is the right for civilians acting on their own behalf to engage in violence for the sake of defending one's own life or the lives of others, including the use of deadly force.

For her next major work in 1936, her ' classic monograph on ego psychology and defense mechanisms, Anna Freud drew on her own clinical experience, but relied on her father's writings as the principal and authoritative source of her theoretical insights '.

Here her ' cataloguing of regression, repression, reaction formation, isolation, undoing, projection, introjection, turning against the self, reversal and sublimation ' helped establish the importance of the ego functions and the concept of defense mechanisms, continuing the greater emphasis on the ego of her father — ' We should like to learn more about the ego ' — during his final decades.

Depersonalization is a dissociative defense, often described by the schizoid patient as " tuning out ," " turning off ", or as the experience of a separation between the observing and the participating ego.

The related defense of ' projective identification ' differs from projection in that the impulse projected onto an external object does not appear as something alien and distant from the ego because the connection of the self with that projected impulse continues '.

When anxiety becomes too overwhelming, it is then the place of the ego to employ defense mechanisms to protect the individual.

In the first definitive book on defense mechanisms, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense ( 1936 ), Anna Freud introduced the concept of signal anxiety ; she stated that it was " not directly a conflicted instinctual tension but a signal occurring in the ego of an anticipated instinctual tension ".

According to Khantzian's view of addiction, drug users compensate for deficient ego function by using a drug as an " ego solvent ", which acts on parts of the self that are cut off from consciousness by defense mechanisms.

The drug's effects substitute for defective or non-existent ego mechanisms of defense.

She attempted to manipulate information from American defense contractor Tony Stark, and inevitably confronted his superhero alter ego, Iron Man.

" Individuals with weak ego boundaries are more prone to use introjection as a defense mechanism.

Introjection of the good object is also used by the ego as a defense against anxiety.

Klein imagined this function as a defense which contributes to the normal development of the infant, including ego structure and the development of object relations.

The second defense mechanism is identification, by which the child incorporates, to his or her ego, the personality characteristics of the same-sex parent ; in so adapting, the boy diminishes his castration anxiety, because likeness to father protects him from father ’ s wrath as a rival for mother ; by so adapting, the girl facilitates identifying with mother, who understands that, in being females, neither of them possesses a penis, and thus are not antagonists.

Rimmer's primary character traits include anal-retentiveness, over-adherence to protocol, cowardice, misogyny, and a severely inflated ego which is likely a coping mechanism for his deep-seated sense of self-loathing, which he tries but sometimes fails to hide from others.

Psychoanalysts define the condition as an indication of a defence mechanism deriving in the unconscious ego against anxiety, prohibited intuition or desires, unsettled struggle or forbidden sexual drives, dread of castration, sexual excitement, and sexual fulfilment and orgasm throughout the act of stealing.

When this mechanism is overused, especially during the formation of the ego, it can become a permanent character trait.

' Repression, a key concept of psychoanalysis, is not a defense mechanism as it pre-exists the ego e. g. ' Primal Repression '.

Yet instead of infinity and the Deity being the ego's gateway to the Other as in Descartes, Husserl's ego itself becomes transcendent.

The character of Pantalone is entirely based on money and ego, for he has the highest regards for his intelligence, " but at every step he becomes the butt for every conceivable kind of trick ".

This plot point becomes important near the end of the film when Robby refuses to kill the " Id monster " because the robot recognizes that the creature is an alter ego / extension of Dr. Morbius.

The names " Jekyll and Hyde " have since become synonymous with a split personality or an alter ego that becomes capable of overpowering the original self.

Conversely, carefree playboy billionaire Bruce Wayne becomes the alter ego necessary to hide the true persona of the crime-fighting Batman.

The contradiction becomes more evident when the ego is denned to be a subject ( and so a real ) that is its own object.

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.

Willow is taken over by a dark alter ego, going on a rampage, abandoning Tara's wishes, soaking up every dark magic text she can find and for the next three episodes, becomes so powerful that none of her friends can stop her.

Stories included a love affair between Sonny Crockett ( Don Johnson ) and Caitlin Davies ( Sheena Easton ), and a plot in which Crockett developed amnesia ( during which he mistakes himself for his drug dealer alter ego, and becomes a hitman ).

His alter ego, Orion, becomes dominant and wreaks havoc, proclaiming Holly to be his true love and calling Foaly his " noble steed.

She is infatuated with Matt from the moment they meet, but she also soon becomes mesmerized by Daredevil, Matt ’ s crime fighting alter ego.

The boys refuse to let Butters play, so he becomes his alter ego, Professor Chaos, and sets off to fight them in a stylized anime sequence.

On the other hand, if he retains some fragment of ego, or if he fears to cross, he then becomes encysted.

Janet and her parents are completely sucked in, but Janet's ego becomes difficult for the McKinleys to control.

Butler revisits three of the most popular: Claude Lévi-Strauss ’ s anthropological structuralism, in which the incest taboo necessitates a kinship structure governed by the exchange of women ; Joan Riviere ’ s psychoanalytic description of “ womanliness as a masquerade ” that hides masculine identification and therefore also conceals a desire for another woman ; and Sigmund Freud ’ s psychoanalytic explanation of mourning and melancholia, in which loss prompts the ego to incorporate attributes of the lost loved one — in which, in other words, cathexis becomes identification.

Through concentrated non-attachment and final realization of the illusory nature of his own ego, Siddhartha attains enlightenment and becomes the Buddha.

* " Before Abraham was I am " John 8: 58-is treated that the ego eimi refers to " I am " before " Abraham becomes " ( future ) many nations in the work of Christ.

In this state, one lets go of the ego and becomes aware of Spirit beyond creation.

His alter ego is Mr. Electric, an electrician who maintains the equilibrium of Planet Drool until he becomes corrupted by Minus.

He creates a new adult male alter ego named Woodrow, inspired by a picture of former President Woodrow Wilson, and Mrs. Krabappel becomes infatuated with " Woodrow ".

He thus becomes both a jealous husband with a fragile ego and nasty temper, as well as ( in effect ) a greedy pimp who compels his wife to take risqué work despite her dislike of her costar and her protests that she “ only wants to be a housewife ” now that their daughter has been born.

When one of these states is invested with ego energy, it becomes " the self " in the here and now.