Dictionary entry
Superegos
Pronunciation
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Definition
superego /su:pǝr'i:gǝƱ; Brit also sju:-/ n ( pl -os ) (usu sing ) ( psychology ) အတၱမာန္ကို ထိန္းေက်ာင္း ေပးႏိုင္သည့္ မသိစိတ္။ Compare EGO, ID
Examples
- ‘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.’