superego
/suːpərˈiːɡəʊ/
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American sound/suːpərˈiːɡəʊ/
suːpərˈiːɡəʊ
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suːpər - ˈiːɡəʊ -> superego
Myanmar meaning
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superego /su:pǝr'i:gǝƱ; Brit also sju:-/ n (pl -os ) (usu sing ) (psychology )
အတ္တမာန်ကို ထိန်းကျောင်း ပေးနိုင်သည့် မသိစိတ်။
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- ‘This is in no small way directly attributable to the never-ending battle between my three psychosocial building blocks, in which my id and ego battle the superego for supremacy in times of woe, happiness and all between.’
- ‘This sense of conscience-whether individually internalized or mandated by a collective consciousness-forces the superego to engage in battle with the harsh aggressiveness that the ego would like to inflict upon others.’
- ‘Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.’
- ‘Normally, if I wanted to rob a bank, the superego or conscience would force a delay, and the trigger is the anxiety [I would feel] in anticipation of doing something wrong.’
- ‘His need for order, form, and tradition is a substitute for the id impulses that are repressed by his strong superego.’
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id, ego, self, psyche, anxiety, caution, censor, compunction, conscience, demur, difficulty, doubt, duty, faltering, hesitancy, hesitation, inner voice, integrity, misgiving, moral sense, morality, morals, pause, perplexity, principles, qualm, qualms, reconsideration, reluctance, reluctancy, right and wrong, scruples, second thought, sense of judgment, sense of propriety, sense of right and wrong, shame, small voice, squeam, squeamishness, still small voice, twinge, uneasiness
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