superego
Example Sentences
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As I previously stated, it's his id, his ego and his superego.
From Salon • Nov. 6, 2023
Winter, a pregnant immigration lawyer, is the family’s superego, based in the Providence fixer-upper she shares with her fiance, Zeno, an undocumented Mexican contractor and the son of an academic.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023
We like to imagine technology as a kind of superego: rational, impersonal, decisive.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023
“I often wonder,” Tillman reflected recently in the course of an email conversation, “how conscience, a superego, develops, and how becoming conscientious evolves. … My conscience led to my sense of obligation.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2022
The latter includes all our defence mechanisms and most of the superego.
From Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Vaknin, Samuel
Vocabulary lists containing superego
Girl, Interrupted
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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