Exactly, Noel. I don't think the "Ego" really has anything to do with these personality structures; or rather, it has far less to do with them than many unconscious mechanisms and other structural psychological functions.
It's really the Super-Ego that should be destroyed, if you try to translate Zhao's terms into Freudian ones.
I know my post wasn't as clear as it should have been.
What I was saying was that the
word 'ego' is used to describe at least two distinctly different things - sense of self as distinct, and personality. I wasn't talking about 'superego' at all as I think that is something entirely different and I'm not sure I like the term anyway - it's way misleading.
As to what 'should' be destroyed - I don't think anything
should be destroyed as such really. I think maybe useless personality constructs that don't correspond with essential being can be transformed into something else maybe, or discarded.
You can dissolve identity as zhao is saying but in the modern world I think this can only really be temporary, unless you go and live by yourself up a mountain or something. And necessarily so too because it would just be impossible to function.
Psychology is really much simpler than all these Freudian models. There's essence, and then there's the other stuff - all that matters is how closely they correlate, or how much your shit gets in the way of you being you.
