Visualization of the Ego, Jonty Hurwitz

Sigmund Freud: Visualisation of the Ego

The word "ego" is derived from the Latin word for “I.” If you were writing “I love you” in Latin, you’d write ego amo te. Use of “ego” crept into psychology mostly through the work of Sigmund Freud. In Freud’s theory, the ego is the part of the personality that arbitrates between the animalistic desires of the “id” and the moral and social standards of the “superego.” But, interestingly, the word, “ego” does not appear anywhere in Freud’s extensive writings. He never used it. This work explores Freud’s Ego using the visual metaphor of anamorphism.