>>40951883
>still just the ego
The concept of "ego" is pabulum. It was popularized by Freud, and somehow came to allude to some hazy understanding of the idea of ahaṅkāra.
Compare this distorted (and victimistic) view of the psyche with the parts of the soul in Jewish mysticism: nefesh, ruach, neshamah, chayah, and yechidah. No need for self-identifying with a "bad" part to chastise. Just different components of a complex machine and fallible that can reach for the divine.
Same for the Egyptian concept of the soul, and many others.

The West (and by diffusion slowly, the rest of the world), is caught in a disempowering trap. So many spiritually-inclined individuals are falling prey to it.
Please, promote it, even if unknowingly. And definitely not out of it giving you sense of superiority over your "unenlightened" interlocutor.