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superego

NOUN
  1. (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience

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  • Reich 1974 placed the impulsive character, the neurotic character, and the psychopath between neurosis and psychosis and observed the ambivalence, hostile pregenital impulses, ego and superego deficits, immature defenses, and primitive narcissistic features of the impulsive personality. Clinical Work with Adolescents
  • His description of the modules - id, ego, and superego - are now generally unregarded, but we still operate as a democracy of components.
  • But the irreverent Honeymouth, trying to maintain his poise, prodded me, saying, Come on, Superego. Dreamseller: The Calling
  • In its heroic period the Freudian school, in agreement on this point with the other, enlightening Kant, demanded the ruthless critique of the superego as something alien to the ego, something truly heteronomous.
  • In fact, it is the death instinct in the form of the imbalance between id, ego and superego that drives Gallimard to his final suicide.
  • People talked about psychoanalysis - ego and superego and ids and repressed early experiences.
  • I love to watch Lee's liberal superego fight it out with her conservative id. THE SAVING GRACES
  • The literature supports an Oedipal stage, but finds that a good superego is likely to come from a loving rather than a fearful relationship with a father.
  • They are superego, ego and ID.
  • His need for order, form, and tradition is a substitute for the id impulses that are repressed by his strong superego.
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