Mythos „Ichauflösung“ (Ego Dissolution). Zur Unterscheidung von Selbst und Ego

Abstract

The Mythe of Ego Dissolution: On the Difference between Self and Ego

In this article I try to give a phenomenological analysis of the so-called „Ego Dissolution“. I differentiate between the self and the Ego. I argue that in ego dissolution it is not the ego that dissolves, but the self. The dissolution of the Ego shows two things: the self is not something substantial; and there is an ultimative persistent subject of experience: the Ego.

Keywords: ego dissolution, ego, self, self-consciousness, psychedelics, anthropology, phenomenology