superego
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Even Sigmund Freud’s conception of a wild, uninhibited id struggling against the superego was influenced by the emerging discipline of brain science—specifically, the Scottish neurologist and psychologist David Ferrier’s theory of inhibition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
As I previously stated, it's his id, his ego and his superego.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2023
Freud introduced the idea of the superego in the 1920s to describe how one part of our personality judges other parts.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
We like to imagine technology as a kind of superego: rational, impersonal, decisive.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
The latter includes all our defence mechanisms and most of the superego.
From Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin
Readers with overactive superegos that will torment them if they spend the “extra” time of quarantine reading anything but classics may be struggling with War and Peace right now.
From Slate ● May 22, 2020
Most people's superegos dictate that we cannot go around doing whatever we want.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2019
In reexamining the basics of corporate management, and the bosses who built it, we have an opportunity to disentangle our sense of selfhood from the systemic superegos that surround us.
From Forbes ● Sep. 5, 2014
The psychoanalytic view was that children didn’t have the mental capacity for depression; their superegos were not sufficiently developed.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2010
The only way you outer-directed moles will accept individuality any more even in a fictional character, without your superegos getting seasick, is for them to be crazy.
From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Fritz Leiber
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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