Excitement vs Ego - What's the difference?
excitement | ego |
(uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
* E.A. Poe, '' The unparalelled adventure of one Hans Pfaal':
(countable) something that excites.
(senseid)the self, especially with a sense of self-importance
* 1998 ,
(psychology, Freudian) the most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings
* 1954 , Calvin S. Hall, “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
As nouns the difference between excitement and ego
is that excitement is (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused) while ego is ego.excitement
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Noun
- By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement .
ego
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(en noun) (wikipedia ego)- When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego'. ' Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
- In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.