Rose White
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Have been analyzing my inner critic voice. Trying to understand if it is a child voice or implanted in me from someone else (the old tapes concept). I am aware of the concept of the ego. I don’t understand it very well but my understanding is that it helps a person function socially. It is related to a sense of self. And in people who were abused as children or kept in captivity as adults their ego can become enmeshed with their abusers’.
So it seems that the ego is a given. But somehow the inner critic seems possibly disposable? As in it’s possible to get rid of, reduce, or ignore it, etc.?
So my question is, first of all, do most people, regardless of trauma, have an inner critic? And if so, how do the inner critic and ego differ, if at all? My guesses are… Maybe the inner critic is part of the ego? Or they are different perspectives on the same concept?
So it seems that the ego is a given. But somehow the inner critic seems possibly disposable? As in it’s possible to get rid of, reduce, or ignore it, etc.?
So my question is, first of all, do most people, regardless of trauma, have an inner critic? And if so, how do the inner critic and ego differ, if at all? My guesses are… Maybe the inner critic is part of the ego? Or they are different perspectives on the same concept?