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Joseph Campbell—Myth as the Mirror for the Ego

By Joseph Campbell — 2010

Myth lets you know where you are across the ages of life-at 40 or at 80. This video is a brief excerpt from interviews filmed with Joseph Campbell shortly before his death in 1987, previously unreleased by the Joseph Campbell Foundation

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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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