The ego is your sense of who you are, isn’t it? |
Yes, but more technically phrased, the ego is a part of the mind you use to experience as yourself and to recognize yourself. |
Do you get it? |
Not at all. |
Okay, so you have an idea that you are Lain. |
In such the structural element, the "EGO" is right there. |
Linguistically, "myself" describes all of you, right? |
"Ego" is, however, one of the parts of your mind you use to recognize that all of experiences I have had were mine. |
Saying "it’s just to realize that you are yourself" is somewhat better to understand? |
I can get the last part, but it is still beyond my understanding. |
I like your honesty. |
So the girl, Lain, has various emotions, such as kindness, loneliness and things like that. |
Now the EGO is what is left when you don’t feel any emotions. |
I guess I understand a little... |
For example, the Lain who woke up this morning and what Lain is now here are the same, right? |
Right. |
What Lain will be tomorrow should be the same as those. |
I guess so. |
I mean if your ego works properly, you can recognize that you exist continuously and confirm that that existence is "myself." If your ego doesn’t work properly... |
If it doesn’t? |
We call such a situation "identity disorder" in the medical field. |
On the other hand, there is also an "isolation disorder" which means you think that you are not yourself. |
He, he, they sound like bad diseases, don’t they? |
Yet anyone your age usually doesn’t complete his or her ego until later. |
You just can gradually recognize yourself with age. |
So is it wrong to think that I understand myself at my age? |
It just happens to be that such things happen all the time. |