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The characteristics of the ego therefore change as various situations are met. The term ego, implying one phenomena, is therefore confusing. What was ego today may belong to the subconscious tomorrow. Any attempt at rigidity is therefore defeating.

There had been a tendency, as given, for a rigid personality ego framework in any case. The qualities thrown up to the surface were those in the past most capable to handle highly difficult situations, and in some of these stubbornness was, comparatively speaking, a virtue.

The situations had changed but the ego framework had grown rigid, rigid enough so that it could in a large degree dominate certain normally subconscious processes, bringing forth the physical symptoms. Now there is always an imprinting process within the personality, belonging to past experience. A previous inclination to gluttony had once led him to some slight gout, and in the present case there was a swelling of the feet.