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The ego can find many dodges and give many pretexts to prevent him from making the first humiliating gesture of mental surrender. They are intended to protect its own life or power and to keep him, through pride, from making any space for the Overself's entry.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 3 : Psyche > # 65