In Theosophy, Steiner suggested that human beings unite a physical body of a nature common to ( and that ultimately returns to ) the inorganic world ; a life body ( also called the etheric body ), in common with all living creatures ( including plants ); a bearer of sentience or consciousness ( also called the astral body ), in common with all animals ; and the ego, which anchors the faculty of self-awareness unique to human beings.

The apparent ego is merely the result of identification with the temporary aggregates, the components of the individual human being's body and consciousness at any given moment in time.

But it is intellectually handicapped, in that in combination with its telepathy, automatically assumes loss of ego when presented with a powerful telepathic feedback ( i. e. from a human ): It can assume a catatonic, unconscious state if a human it has telepathically linked thinks that it's just imagined a Nonesuch: thus the name.

Freud divides human personality into three significant components: the id, ego, and super-ego.

Although acknowledging the human propensity and tendency to ego rating as innate, he has critiqued the philosophy of self-esteem as unrealistic, illogical and self-and socially destructive – often doing more harm than good.

* John Smith is the pseudonym used by Red Tornado as his human alter ego during his tie with the Justice League

According to Osho every human being is a Buddha with the capacity for enlightenment, capable of unconditional love and of responding rather than reacting to life, although the ego usually prevents this, identifying with social conditioning and creating false needs and conflicts and an illusory sense of identity that is nothing but a barrier of dreams.

Frequently connected with individual totemism are definite ideas about the human soul ( or souls ) and conceptions derived from them, such as the idea of an alter ego and nagualism — from the Spanish form of the Aztec word naualli, " something hidden or veiled "— which means that a kind of simultaneous existence is assumed between an animal or a natural object and a person ; i. e., a mutual, close bond of life and fate exists in such a way that in case of the injury, sickness, or death of one partner, the same fate would befall the other member of the relationship.

When mergers fail employees point to issues such as identity, communication problems, human resources problems, ego clashes, and inter-group conflicts, which all fall under the category of " cultural differences ".

Hinduism has preached about humility and egoless state through numerous sacred scripts and sages which dates back to 5500 – 2600 BCE. Hinduism has influenced many originating religions like Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism regarding egoless state and nirvana or mukti. Eknath Easwaran writes that the Gita's subject is " the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage if he or she is to emerge from life victorious ", and " The language of battle is often found in the scriptures, for it conveys the strenuous, long, drawn-out campaign we must wage to free ourselves from the tyranny of the ego, the cause of all our suffering and sorrow ".

Concern over reputation is sometimes considered a human fault, exaggerated in importance due to the fragile nature of the human ego.

In trying to resolve the problems of dubious inferences about kinship " systems ", George P. Murdock ( 1949, Social Structure ) compiled kinship data to test a theory about universals in human kinship in the way that terminologies were influenced by the behavioral similarities or social differences among pairs of kin, proceeding on the view that the psychological ordering of kinship systems radiates out from ego and the nuclear family to different forms of extended family.

Writer David Michelinie created Carnage to be a darker version of Venom, intending to have Venom's human alter ego, Eddie Brock, be killed off in The Amazing Spider-Man # 400 and have the symbiote continue to bond with a series of hosts.

Douglas Hofstadter suggests that, recognizing that the human brain's " ego " is nothing but a construct, no emotion is necessary.

In developing psychosynthesis, Assagioli agreed with Freud that healing childhood trauma and developing a healthy ego were necessary aims of psychotherapy, but held that human growth could not be limited to this alone.

A student of philosophical and spiritual traditions of both East and West, Assagioli sought to address human growth as it proceeded beyond the norm of the well-functioning ego ; he wished also to support the blossoming of human potential into what Abraham Maslow later termed self-actualization, and further still, into the spiritual or transpersonal dimensions of human experience as well.

Freud begins the seventh chapter by clearly explaining how the repression of the death instinct works to instill neurosis in individuals: the natural aggressiveness of the human child is suppressed by society ( and its local representative, the father-figure ) and turned inward, introjected, directed back against the ego.

Our personal experiences influence our accessing the archetypal level of the human psyche, but personalized ego consciousness can be likened to computer software.

While a member of the Justice League, the Red Tornado developed a human alter ego appearance, that of John Smith, and formed an attachment with a woman named Kathy Sutton.

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

such capacities are impressive evidence pointing to a conception of the human being which does not appear in the accounts of biologists and organic evolutionists ; ;

Yet every Sunday we sinners go to that emergency room to receive first aid, and we leave unmindful that the man who ministered to us is a human being who suffers, too.

Even if gymnastics are not the ultimate goal, the good tumbler will be a better dancer, a better athlete, and a human being with a greater margin of safety in any activity.

Nevertheless, like any other human being upon whom the spotlight of the world plays continually, Khrushchev, the anti-personality cultist, has become a comic actor, or thinks he has.

`` Such as ' sending the cat to guard the mice ', or ' the falcon to protect the dove ', or most terribly sharp of all, ' the human being to save humanity ' ''.

It seems to me that the first human being to reach one of these planets may well learn what it is to be a truly great and noble species ''.

probably occur in the horse much as in the human being ; ;

Anatomically, the horse lung appears to be remarkably like that of man, insofar as this can be ascertained from comparison of our findings in the horse with those of others ( Birnbaum, '54 ) in the human being.

Nakamura ( '58 ), Verloop ( '48 ), Marchand, Gilroy and Watson ( '50 ), Von Hayek ( '53 ), and Tobin ( '52 ) have all claimed their normal but relatively nonfunctional existence in the human being.

'49 ) found these shunts in the human being but was unable to find them in rats.

First came the cannon fodder, white-clad civilians being driven into death as a massive human battering ram.

Each human being, known only by a given name, had a cash value.

yet he did not stop being human as a result.

And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin, having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race ; ;

so also did Mary, having a man betrothed ( to her ), and being nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become the cause of salvation, both to herself and the whole human race ''.

' I thought it was a human being ' ''.

She was another human being and happened to be a hustler.

These qualities are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being " ( Dalai Lama ).

In structure, Johnson points out the same central theme, that of cannibalism and the eating of babies as well as the same final argument, that " human depravity is such that men will attempt to justify their own cruelty by accusing their victims of being lower than human.

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

Wilson, who defines androids as a " synthetic human being ", distinguishes between three types of androids, based on their body's composition: