Plural of ego; a person's sense of self-worth or their feeling of importance, or in psychology, the part of personality that deals with reality.
From Latin 'ego' meaning 'I' or the self. First used in its modern psychological sense by Sigmund Freud in the late 1800s to describe the conscious, rational part of the mind.
Freud created the concept of the 'ego' by simply taking the Latin word for 'I' and giving it psychological meaning—now we use it constantly without realizing he borrowed the word directly from Caesar's language!
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