transcendental ego

Alternative forms

 * transcendental Ego
 * Transcendental Ego

Noun

 * 1)  The conscious self which is the unifying subject of a person's experiences and which cannot itself be experienced as an object, understood by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) as knowable only by inference, and understood by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) as pure consciousness.

Synonyms

 * non-empirical ego
 * pure ego