I cannot listen to this lecture right now but I am of the opinion that EGO DEVELOPMENT requires an ability to communicate.
Our best human tool for grasping reality is really langugage. (math being just another form of language BTW)
Mostly we understand the world based on an increasingly complex set of metaphors.
As our language skills advance we build on those metaphorical understandings making them more and more complex, perhaps more and more accurate, too.
I believe that our egos are really artifical constructs based on our ability to metaphorically grasp reality through shared understanding that we mostly get through understanding that one thing can be LIKE another. (for you math guys think SET THEORY)
Basically everything we understand (including our own being) is based on our ability to find some linguistic ability to capture the concept of reality in language.
I'm not explaining this well because why?
Because I lack the words necessary to make the metaphors work for most of you, I suspect.
Let me try using computer language to explain what I'm saying (more metaphors, eh?)
I suspect that the ID and unconscious are hardwired parts of our brains, but the EGO is a software program that is created as we learn to communicate.
To some extent that's exactly why the dream state is so difficult for the conscious EGO to fully understand.
They speak entirely different languages. Babies have IDs but not egos.
The ID is easier for us to understand because it is our animal motives.
I agree. There have been a couple of books written on this subject by Eckhart Tolle. The Power of Now and A New Earth. His theory is exactly that only he doesn't feel the need to push the ego under once you understand that rather, to strive to bring yourself to the present and to stay in the now as much as you possibly can in order to lose the "baggage" that your ego holds.