superego

IPA: supɪrˈɛgoʊ

(psychoanalysis) The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.

Examples of "superego" in Sentences

The superego is the element of personality that dictates conscience-right and wrong.
The superego is a regulator of mood and self-esteem and may be involved in severe depressive states.
The inner critic, also known as the superego, continuously undermines our authority and holds us accountable for all sorts of alleged misdeeds.
The phrase “conceptual environment” is almost synonymous with what psychoanalysts call superego and even more with what anthropologists call culture.
Everyone gets these two versions of judgment mixed up because we all have a part of the brain known as the superego, or the internalized voice of authority.
The superego is the voice of moral outrage, of the whistle-blower and the tattle-tale, the first to kick you when you’re down and to insist you deserve your misfortune.
She wages war on The Voice — what Freud called the superego — a scolding presence that may try to shame or ridicule women into pursuing a cadaverous look through anorexia or bulimia.
In the language of psychoanalysis, sublimation reconciles the needs of the ego, or what I want for myself, with those of the superego, which is our sense of what the outside world requires of us.