superego

Example Sentences

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Kepnes’s absorbing narrator, Joe Goldberg, the multiple murderer who demonstrates “the shattered barrier between id and superego,” is back for a third book.

From New York Times

No doubt he’ll return in future installments, demonstrating the shattered barrier between id and superego.

From New York Times

If he considers this a matter of political fortune, perhaps the superego thrives by acquitting the id.

From Washington Post

It’s the superego battling the id, the Catholic confessional.

From New York Times

For them, Trumpism’s bumptious character, theatricality and venom are selling points: the unfiltered id kicking the bossy superego in the shins.

From Washington Post