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“Normally, there is nothing of which we are more certain than the feeling of our self, our own ego…There are cases in which parts of a persons own body… appear alien to him and as not belonging to his own ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it. Thus even the feeling of our own ego is subject to disturbances and the boundaries of the ego are not constant.”—Freud Freud starts of by stating his view on the ego and how it works and is affected To understand how an individual is affected by society (civilization) one must first understand the importance of the ego. The ego plays a big role in weather or not an individual is happy or unhappy. When the human eg