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An analysis of the development, nature, and inter-relations of the three main senses in which Freud used the term 'Das Ich' (the 'I'). They are:
a.the ego —one's person as subject, who desires, thinks, feels, acts. The use of this concept is very flexible, ranging from a global sense which includes the whole psychic system, to the narrower idea of the conscious purposive agent, to the technical concept of the 'system ego': a psychic subsystem which plays the key role in organizing and directing the activity of the person as subject.