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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
super-ego

also superego, "that part of the psyche which controls the impulses of the id," 1924, as a translation of German über-Ich; see super- and ego.

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super-ego

n. (alternative spelling of superego English)

Usage examples of "super-ego".

There is a higher world of the super-ego where things are quite differently arranged.

These Draconian requirements left a bitter taste in Branding's mouth, and often when he would get fed up or one too many drinks would loosen his iron-bound super-ego, he would confess to Mary that he would dearly love to hold one of his famous press conferences in order to expose what he called 'this medieval infrastructure'.

My super-ego censor must have been working overtime to keep matters within acceptable bounds.

Guns are merely phallic symbols to the sublimated super-ego, but Bang-Bang's name is proof enough of Heller's sexual problems.