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Symbolic

EGO & IDENTITY		*

The theory of Ego and Identity is discussed in relation to the Cognizance Theory, as they affect the psychology of the individual in physical existence.

Any given individual must make continual decisions concerning the well being of the self. The decison-maker is termed the Thinking-I, such that this thinker must make decisions from specific context, or the way the body experiences reality. This context is termed Interpretive Personification, as specifically through the vehicles of the Ego and Identity.

The Ego is defined as associative criterion, categorized in the memory which relates to the definition of self, as the experience of the Vehicle of Perception or body. The Ego is defined as the Interpretive Personification of a single and individual physical body, or specific perspective in which to make decisions. For instance the Ego represents a organism that is male or female, strong/weak, athletic/sedentary, smart/dim, fat/skinny, healthy/unfit or fast/slow. Each of these conditions represents a specific context of which reality is interpreted. The context of an unhealthy body might require one to interpret the world in terms of how the day's weather may impact one's health.

The Ego represents all those associative attributes that pertain to the physical body and Positive Dimension. The Ego is singular, as the context of a single physical body, and that would include all the sensations, feelings, natural inclinations, as likes and dislikes, and the true physical self, meaning that it reflects the innate physical composition: genetic, biological and chemical, which are the natural given propensities of the born-being.

The Identity is also associative criterion stored in the memory that is also used as a context for interpretation or Interpretive Personification. The Identity represents a creation of the Thinking-I in the mind, memory or Negative Dimension. The Thinking-I may adopt a single or any number as multiple Identities. Identities may be adopted by learning from the family and culture, can be based on such things as profession, nationality, religion, avocations, sexual preference or ideals. The Thinking-I is free to create and alter an Identity in any way it sees fit, as subjective, which may or may not have any relation to the body, the Ego or the reality of which one lives. The Identity may be completely imaginary.