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What happens when you assume the alter ego in perpetuity? Where does the "original ego" go?
by evocatus 4y ago
What happens when you assume the alter ego in perpetuity? Where does the "original ego" go?
- tyurok 4y agoArt imitates life until life imitates art.
- QuikAccount 4y agoFunny that you ask this. I recall reading about this a while ago although I can't find what I was reading. Apparently this is called "ego suicide." Killing your original self and letting the personality you created takeover your entire being.
- TeaDude 4y agoI have an further question. No pressure if you don't remember or it wasn't listed. (I'm really interested in anyone who can answer this) Is there a term for when you believe that that "original ego" was killed by something else? Be it killed by "the world" or some serious life event or revelation or something.
- evocatus 4y agoThis is the ego death. You could fill libraries with what has been written on this phenomenon, though under many different names.
- kevin_b_er 4y agoLooking at the wikipedia page, I'd say "ego death" sounds like a very different concept. What the parent posters are talking about is when you have two personalities: the original and the mask, but the mask stays on so long it becomes the new permanent personality. The original "ego" is gone and already replaced. "ego death" sounds like a loss of the only personality. There's no alternate.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoFrom personal experience, it goes away or becomes a mask you can hide behind if the situation warrants it.