We cannot come to self-awareness without giving that awareness some content, any more than we can “see” nothing. We can, of course, have the capacity to see, just as we can have the capacity for self-awareness. But just as actually seeing means that we perceive something, so self-consciousness means being conscious of something. That which we are conscious of in ourselves is called the ego. This ego is the image we have of ourselves, the image that we present on a daily basis through work, recreation, and social media.
