Egoic

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HiAs a result, it’s fairly easy for us to become disembodied egoic entities, to “rise above” our biology and experience a sharp sense of mind/body duality.--- Does "egoic" mean the same as "egoistic"?

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

I've never encountered the word 'egoic' before, and it is not in my dictionary.

I'd have to try to figure out the intended meaning from the larger context.

Best wishes, Clive

Newguest · Answer

Here you have more context:

In addition, the split between the ego and the body, and between the ego

and the world, could never have become as severe for women due to the fact that

women are more closely connected to nature – in terms of the biology of their own

bodies – than men. Male biology is fairly inert, and makes few demands. Apart

from ***, hunger, going to the toilet and periodic pain and injury, our bodily

processes aren’t obviously active. As a result, it’s fairly easy for us to become

disembodied egoic entities, to “rise above” our biology and experience a sharp

sense of mind/body duality. On the other hand, female biology is more powerful

and pronounced, with the monthly cycle of ovulation and menstruation and the

processes of pregnancy and lactation. This may have checked the development of

the female ego, and stopped a mind/body duality forming, so that women could

never develop a state of fully-fledged ego-isolation.

--- So, do you think it means the same as "egoistic"?

Thanks

CalifJim · Answer

NewguestDoes "egoic" mean the same as "egoistic"?

No, no, no! egoistic is 'self-centered'. egoic, in the given context, is 'possessing an ego', i.e., 'possessing a sense of self (as a mind)' (as opposed to possessing a sense of self as a body).

CJ

P.S. However intriguing it is, making that male-female distinction is really going out on a limb, in my opinion. But then that wasn't the question. Excuse my excursion off-topic.

Newguest · Answer

Thanks CJ!

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