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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
superego
noun
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▪ As we saw earlier, it was out of this primal conflict that human societies and the superego first emerged.
▪ Finally, the superego again acts as regulator over the tendency towards maximum inclusive fitness.
▪ Giddens in particular has pointed to the very varying ways in which Freud used the words id, ego and superego.
▪ My adolescence was a triumph of the superego over the id.
▪ Nevertheless, Freud did detect a providential, protective element in the superego.
▪ The agency implicated in these is clearly not the id, nor simply the ego, but rather the superego.
▪ The decline of the superego disturbs the equilibrium to a dangerous degree.
▪ They started to talk about the ego, id and superego as if they were physical realities located in the body.
Wiktionary
superego

n. (context psychoanalysis English) The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.

WordNet
superego

n. (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience

Wikipedia
Superego (podcast)

Superego is an improvised sketch comedy podcast by American comedians Jeremy Carter, Matt Gourley, Mark McConville, and Paul F. Tompkins.

Usage examples of "superego".

Jack mumbles, as a torrent of images crashes down on his eyeballs and jackhammers its way in through his ears like the superego of a disembodied giant.

Envoy training takes that and refines it so your superego and subconscious get along better.

The most widely known hypothesis that is at least reminiscent of the triune brain is Sigmund Freud's division of the human psyche into id, ego and superego.

Tins view, of course, has some notable points of similarity to-Freud's picture of the repression of the id by the superego (or of the unconscious by the conscious), with expressions of the id made most clearly manifest in slips of the tongue, free associations, dreams and the like-that is, during the interstices of superego repression.

All the egos and superegos who had given their lifetimes to the search for extraterrestrial life.

They sat cross-legged, staring at one another, swooning as the acid pulled them into interior mindways and opened vistas into their own Ids where they acted out their most depraved fantasies, into their superegos where they acted out their most idealistic dreams.

Seven hundred million and four ids and egos and superegos compressed into four bodies.