egocide

English

Etymology

From ego +‎ -cide.

Noun

egocide (countable and uncountable, plural egocides)

1. destruction of the ego
   • 2000, Alan Kazdin, Encyclopedia of psychology‎^[1], American Psychiatric Association, page 72:

     Fortunately, he did not commit suicide, but rather a type of "egocide" in which the false self-dies and the true self is born

Related terms

• egocidal

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