superego

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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

We like to imagine technology as a kind of superego: rational, impersonal, decisive.

From New York Times

“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

But it’s not easy to invest in the relationship of the siblings when Japhy comes across as a smirking figure from Alice’s superego.

From Los Angeles Times

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