ego/s
"In intention, the ego progressively loses its ego individual character and finds itself carried to a universal value that makes it escape from the strictly ego form of the ego . It is, nonetheless only through intention that the formless ego becomes self-consciousness. Thus the ego is a transient fact, not only as a result of its chance birth and its approaching death, but also because the process that determines it is also the one that exhausts it. it is impossible even to reach a clear distinction between determination and exhaustion. The determined ego is, by the sheer fact of determination, an exhausted ego." Georges Bataille , Critique of Heidegger from Bataille's original manuscript, Biblioteque Nationale de France (trs Stefanos Geroulanos). In October 117 , Summer 2006.