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Ego

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ113158100
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Ego or EGO may refer to:

Social sciences

Ego (Freudian), one of the three constructs in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche

Egoism, an ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of morality

Egotism, the drive to maintain and enhance favorable views of oneself

Egocentrism, the inability to differentiate between self and other

Self-concept, a collection of beliefs about oneself that embodies the answer to "Who am I?"

Arts and media

Film and television

Ego (2013 film), an Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy

Ego (2018 film), an Indian Telugu-language drama

Ego (2021 film), a Spanish psychological horror film

Ego (TV channel), a 2002–2021 Israeli men's-interest channel

"Ego" (The Dead Zone), a 2007 TV episode

"Ego" (Serial Experiments Lain), a 2003 TV episode

Music

Performers and labels

Egó, a 1981–1984 Icelandic band

EGO, a German record label founded by Joe Haider

Albums

Ego (Oomph!

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The public source identifies “Ego” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2018, 2021, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wikimedia, disambiguation and page providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Ego” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.