Meaning
A second self.
Origin
The uses of this phrase, which derives from the Latin 'other I', range from psychoanalysis to films and popular fiction. The term is also the name of a popular computer game. Recently it has been much used in stories of superheroes like Superman and Batman, who require a day-to-day human guise. Before that we had Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
The concept of an alter ego, i.e. a second self, was put forward by Cicero as a philosophical construct in 1st century BC Rome.
The term is first recorded in English in 1537, in a letter written by Richard Layton to Thomas Cromwell, regarding the suppression of the monasteries:
"Ye muste have suche as ye may trust evyn as well as your owne self, wiche muste be unto yowe as alter ego."
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An alter ego (Latin, "the other I") is a second self, a second personality or persona within a person, who is often oblivious to the persona's actions ...
It means "تغيير الذات" in Arabic
thanks realy but to me i still do not understand "alter ego",would u explaine it much more for me please ??
