superego
IPA: supɪrˈɛgoʊ
noun
- (psychoanalysis) The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.
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Examples of "superego" in Sentences
- The superego is our rational self.
- The superego is the conscious ego ideal.
- From this process, the superego develops.
- The superego is a concept of self in psychology.
- It acts as a superego and shows us global reality.
- Superego is the moral segment of the human personality.
- Godot fulfils the function of the superego or moral standards.
- A literal blackout occurs while the Freudian superego expresses.
- The superego is considered the conscience, and a sense of morality.
- As a concept, it is roughly equivalent to the idea of the Freudian superego.
- 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.
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