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The term as it is being used herein, may not relate directly to the psychoanalytic view of ego which is conceptualized as the buffer between the Id and the Superego, but more of ego addressed to a broader and more universal definition of all things related to the self of an individual. Therefore ego in this writing relates to the individuality and one's singular identity, which some may consider the foundation of personality.
Society has become increasingly "self-focused" and there exists in many arenas of culture a fundamental tyranny generated by the supremacy of entitled selfhood. Some might call the entitled self, by negative labels such as selfish or self-centered, but for the purposes of this paper, those labels are unhelpful and un-descriptive in nature. What is clear is that rampant entitled selfhood has created or supports many societal woes and personal tragedies.
Entitled Selfhood, can play out in any number of possibilities in the lives of an individual, for example one might enter a helping profession to meet some need of their selfhood and when that need is not readily met through their labor with clients, they become fatigued and overly stressed, which may indeed contribute to burnout in professional service providers. There exists a natural occurring psychological heuristic which each normally functions human being possesses, that makes comparisons and judgments almost constantly while conscious and alert.
The foundation of those comparisons and judgments are based in comparisons to the individual self, with those things that support the ego being "good or right" and those that do not support the ego as being "bad or wrong". This binary mental activity is most often in servitude to our selfhood. Herein lies a danger for the healer, it becomes very easy to apply our own evaluations to others and judge the goodness or appropriateness of their behavior based on what our individual measuring stick might be.
Society has become increasingly "self-focused" and there exists in many arenas of culture a fundamental tyranny generated by the supremacy of entitled selfhood. Some might call the entitled self, by negative labels such as selfish or self-centered, but for the purposes of this paper, those labels are unhelpful and un-descriptive in nature. What is clear is that rampant entitled selfhood has created or supports many societal woes and personal tragedies.
Entitled Selfhood, can play out in any number of possibilities in the lives of an individual, for example one might enter a helping profession to meet some need of their selfhood and when that need is not readily met through their labor with clients, they become fatigued and overly stressed, which may indeed contribute to burnout in professional service providers. There exists a natural occurring psychological heuristic which each normally functions human being possesses, that makes comparisons and judgments almost constantly while conscious and alert.
The foundation of those comparisons and judgments are based in comparisons to the individual self, with those things that support the ego being "good or right" and those that do not support the ego as being "bad or wrong". This binary mental activity is most often in servitude to our selfhood. Herein lies a danger for the healer, it becomes very easy to apply our own evaluations to others and judge the goodness or appropriateness of their behavior based on what our individual measuring stick might be.
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