Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisis management requires cold and even brutal measures to show determination, it also imposes the need to show opponents a way out. Grandstanding is good for the ego but bad for foreign policy. Many wars have started because no line of retreat was left open. Superpowers have a special obligation not to humiliate each other...
...ego, like the unconscious, is collective...
...death of our society, of the social ego, is the dissolu...
...weren't expecting them to be that strong, but after the Princeton upset it was a good ego-booster to prepare us for Yale," number-four Lisa Harrison said after the match...
...both to confront and masochistically magnify his fallings as a person, Kafka's short story. "The Judgment"--in which a father condemns his son for being a "devilish human being" and pronounces his death sentence, which the submissive son faithfully carries out--is a pivotal point in Kafka's ego-defensive writing...