Practice JLPTMeaning
自我 (じが, jiga) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “self, the ego”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
彼は 早くに 自我 意識が 芽生えた
A sense of self-importance developed early in him.
私は自我が少し強い。
My ego is a little strong.
超自我はわれわれの良心を示す。
The superego represents our conscience.
彼らは喜びのあまりすっかり自我をわすれた。
They were quite beside themselves with joy.
彼らは 喜びのあまりすっかり 自我をわすれた。
They were quite beside themselves with joy.
個人心理のレベルでは、日本人は自我の形成が弱い。
Japanese people have weak ego-strength at the level of individual psychology.
自殺の決意を彼女の自我の芽生えと評価する向きもある。
Some people appreciate her resolution of committing suicide as the awakening of self-awareness.
自己の善根を仏果に向け、自我への執着を除去しようとする。
The charity one pursues is turned to Buddhahood to remove self-obsession.
大林太良はこの神に「第二の自我」を見、吉田敦彦は双生児的な関係を指摘している。
Taryo OBAYASHI finds 'the second self' and Atsuhiko YOSHIDA points out a twin-like relation.
自我意識が残る限り成仏は不可能とすれば、自我意識の払拭は自己自らでは不可能となる。
Assuming that it is impossible to attain Buddhahood as long as there is ego-consciousness, it will be impossible to remove the ego-consciousness by oneself.
眼鏡と同じように、真の自我にとっては用具にすぎず、また真の自我にとっては異質なもでしかないのです。
is quite as much the instrument of the true self, and also as foreign to the true self, as the glass is.'