All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.

It can serve as a bridge between the conscious 'ego' and the unconscious and includes working with dreams and the creative self via imagination or fantasy.

But only a stern discipline can release the etheric body and the soul it contains, together with the conscious ego.

Freud argues that (according to his work with psychoanalysis) the supposedly conscious ego can be shown to possess unconscious thoughts (16) when it unknowingly resists parts of itself.

Chief Buthelezi is a man with a fragile ego, always conscious of perceived slights.

This is necessary in order to see beyond the projections that initially blind the conscious ego.

The superego model doesn't do that, as we've seen, because a lot of the ego is unconscious as well as all of the conscious being ego.

This is not necessarily a physical event, but may refer to the identification of the conscious ego with the self.

To block those unconscious drives of the id, Freud claimed that humans create screen memories, or revised versions of events, to protect the conscious ego.

Such a recognition liberates the potential of the self from the restrictive claims of the conscious ego; it also liberates thought about Christ.