Ego, What is Ego? Options

As a person, I have a big ego. I want to win at all costs. I want this and that. I simply want to have it my way. I want the cake and the icing too. I am spoiled and always want to take more than I give back. Is this an example of an Ego?

My ego boost me to gain riches, health, love and many other conquests.
My ego also make new enemies, destroy and corrupt various aspects of me and my environment consciously and subconsciously.

What is EGO? What does this word means?
How do you define it? How do you keep it your slave instead of it enslaving you?
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/blablabla.gif) Greetings All,

In my understanding there are two different descriptions of Ego. There is the Psychological Description of the Freudian Concept of Ego. Sigmund Freud was the Father of Analytical Psychology. He pioneered the Model of the Dynamic System directed by the Id, the Ego, and the Superego.

The Ego is sometimes described as the "executive" because it directs energies supplied by the Id. The Id is like the blind king whose power is awesome but who must rely on others to carry out orders. The Id can only form mental images of things it desires. The Ego wins power to direct behavior by relating the desires of the Id to external reality. The Id operates on the pleasure principle, the Ego in contrast is guided by the Reality Principle. That is, the Ego delays action until it is practical or appropriate. This is the description of the Ego as given in the College Text called "Introduction to Psychology" Chapter 14, pg. 468.

The second definition I will use comes from a Philosophical explanation of the Ego as set forth in the Philosophy of Johanne Gottlieb Fichte in the Series called "A History of Philosophy" by Frederick Copleston, S.J. Volume VII, pg. 40. It states:
"But what is the Ego which is the foundation of Philosophy? To answer this question we obviously have to go behind the objectifiable self, the Ego as object of introspection or of Empirical Psychology, to the Pure Ego. Fichte once said to his students: 'Gentlemen, think the wall.' He then proceeded: 'Gentlemen , Think him who thought the wall.' Clearly , we could proceed indefinatley in this fashion. 'Gentlemen think him who thought him who thought the wall', and so on. In other words, however hard we try to objectify the self, that is to turn it into an object of consiousness, there always remains an I or Ego which transcends objectification and is itself the condition of all objectifiability and the condition of the unity of consciousness. And it is this Pure or Transcendental Ego which is the First Principle of Philosophy."

In the Psychological respect of the Ego it appears to be realated the External Existence, yet, in the Philosophical sense of the word Ego, it Transcends Objectification. In the first instance, it acts as an "Executive" which directs desires of the Id, yet in the Philosophical sense it is the Condition of all Objectifiability, or the First Principle.

Respectfully,
Helel (Joseph)