@article{Cittasaṃvaro_Rajaparipattimuni_2019, title={Gestalt Interpretation of Ego and Dependent Origination}, volume={12}, url={https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/Jiabu/article/view/201253}, abstractNote={<p>Buddhist translators and teachers commonly use the term ‘ego’ to depict and<br>elucidate Buddhist concepts. But when we examine how they use the term it is found to<br>be poorly defined and of many divergent meanings. In the psychological sense, according<br>to the standard Freudian interpretation, ego has a very clear, specific meaning, which is<br>very different to the way people commonly understand. At the same time as Freud was<br>popularizing his theories, another school of psychology called Gestalt also had an alternative<br>ego theory. In this paper will be analyzed the meaning of ‘ego’ as Freud intended it, how<br>it is commonly interpreted by non-psychologists, and how the Gestalt school understood it.<br>Each definition will be compared to Buddhism to find the common and divergent points.<br>Finally will be shown how the Gestalt interpretation fits with dependent origination.</p>}, number={1}, journal={The Journal of International Association of Buddhist Universities (JIABU)}, author={Cittasaṃvaro, Pandit and Rajaparipattimuni, Phra}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={88–105} }