The potentially dangerous psychological changes produced by psychedelic chemicals have sometimes been interpreted as "loosening ego structures," "dissolving ego boundaries," or "disrupting ego defenses".
Freud's characterization of the ego as structure and organisation thus surfaces here in a more specific embodied and embedded gestalt as intrinsically relational or biopychosocial.
Features based on ego-network structure achieved slightly lower accuracies.
The space around ego is structured by both concentric circles that illustrate the closeness of the alters to ego and the area of activity in which alters are engaged for ESD.
The features captured two types of information: communication patterns across isolated links (16 features) and ego-networks structures (6 features).
Conversely, because obsessive passion originates from ego-invested structures within the self, it will be negatively associated with self-determined regulation.
The minimal self may thus be the subjective component of what Freud described as ego, the objective structure of our psyche.
The extracted features are Gabor pyramid, binocular disparity, optical flow, edge structure, egomotion and ego-flow, and independent flow segments.
In other words, Zen does not understand time and space by imposing a formal category on them, by presupposing in advance a form-matter distinction, which indicates an operation of the discursive mode of reasoning by appealing to the either-or, dualistic, and ego-logical epistemological structure.
The "truths" of cyclical interconnectivity, "sublime stability" and a fundamentally anti-individualistic (yet proudly ego-driven) societal structure have been part and parcel of Chinese consciousness since time immemorial.
We investigate the association between ego-centric network properties (structure, position and tie) and information and communication technology (ICT) use of individuals in knowledge-intensive and geographically dispersed settings.
