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Poseur failing to hide, for example, unconscious inhibitor
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superego
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ 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 ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context psychoanalysis English) The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.
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.