Freud would say the
ego is the mature part of your mind that reconciles archaic demands from the undeveloped
id with reality.
In pop culture ego is conflated with what Heinz Kohut or other modern psychoanalyst would call narcissistic disturbance and has to do with instability of the self-image. Even high functioning people teeter on the edge of feelings of grandiosity and worthlessness.
It is not a ‘big ego’ but an undeveloped ego.
