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Arianrhod

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Sat Jan-01-05 03:10 AM
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50. There are a few thinkers

who have suggested that ego is a relatively recent construction. Jung is one, Jaynes is another. According to their thought, the human psyche developed the ego as a means of differentiating self from other, an evolutionary survival strategy that rather accidentally gave rise to the coherent sense of "self" that we now have. As you might suspect, I am an adherent of this hypothesis. :) If it is correct, then our desperate clinging to ego is twice in error. Also if it is correct, then it follows that releasing one's obsession with survival ("attachment"?) might allow the ego to dissolve.

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