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A Face in the Crowd

1957

A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.

126 min

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Does Your Ego Serve You, or Do You Serve It? What Buddhism and Freud Say About Self-Slavery

“Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy both hold out hope for a more flexible ego, one that does not pit the individual against everyone else in a futile attempt to gain total surety.”

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Mark Epstein
2018
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03:33

Why Your Self-Image Might Be Wrong: Ego, Buddhism, and Freud | Mark Epstein | Big Think

You first develop your ego when you are two or three years old. It creeps into existence the moment you realize that you are not empty—you are a self, and everyone else has a self in them. As you grow up, it latches onto positive and negative feedback and uses them to build the story of who you are.

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Mark Epstein
2018
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