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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sweet Mother, what is a “super-ego”?

A super-ego means an ego that’s enlarged, swollen, made more important, even, than it can be… Super-ego means an ego that’s still more of an ego than an ordinary ego, something swollen, something which tries to be very big while being nothing at all.

Ref : Questions and Answers 1955

 

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