Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear-not new, but in this handling hard to shrug away. These poor creatures, isolated, inarticulate, fearful of showing their numbed feelings but more terrified still of dying without ever having been known to anyone, are vignettes of everyman-in foreboding miniature. In the prose-poetry of her alter ego, Author Frame asks her unanswered question...
...Behavioristic psychology, he said, has focused on what is important to the observer, omitting what is important to the consciousness of the subjects. Leary's concern is to help people attain their inner goals" freedom from their verbal learned past, and an all-encompassing unity and love which transcends ego-identity. He chooses to use consciousness-expanding drugs...
...most of the continent's other leaders, this latest extreme example of self-deification was simply confirmation of a growing suspicion that Accra today houses not Africa's greatest man. but merely Africa's biggest ego...
...Anton Drager (Rock Hudson) worships his own ego, and he has a cool contempt for anyone who does not do the same. He intends to pick the brains of a rumpled Rabelaisian master of tropical medicine named Brits Jansen (Burl Ives), and trade the findings for fame and fortune back home...
...phenomenology holds in common with linguistic philosophy an analysis of meaning, it shares with existentialism the theory that our acts determine, or constitute, our ego. "This same element of ego-constitution recurs in all the existentialists," Follesdal said, "although for Kierkegaard, the ego-determining effects of our acts appear to be more abiding than for Husserl; for Sartre, they appear to be less abiding...