Word: ego
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...believe the object is to put one back in touch with authentic feelings, with one's self or, in Freudian terms, with the ego. To accomplish this, some of the veneer of manners, civilization and other superego accomplishments needs to be scraped away or at least temporarily removed. What often happens, however, is that the id merely has a night...
...flatly rejects the idea that football players relate the sport to their social lives as "crap," thinking instead that it is an ego trip for most of them, including himself...
Vogelsinger felt that his major problem as a Yale coach was deflating his players' ego. "Most of my players have a high school background of being a big fish in a small pond. Well, now all the fish are in one pot and we've got to work together...
...school, they are trying to develop themselves. It's not easy to place personal ego behind you out on the soccer field. You never really succeed until you make them realize that they'll get the most recognition when they all work for the same purpose...
...somebody something here at Yale after my ego trip with 'Love Story,'" Segal explained. Surely, his recent notoriety has resulted primarily from that novel, a short, unimposing book about a Harvard jock-scholar and his Radcliffe sweetheart who dies...