The superego is the element of personality that dictates conscience-right and wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Id and Fat Superego of George Bush] Reference
He's the most extreme case of a person without any kind of superego I've ever seen. From Wordnik.com. ["How Obama lost me" -- by an Obama supporter who's still going to vote for Obama.] Reference
I don't mean that my mind is like my "superego," dictating shoulds and shouldn'ts like some disembodied parental authority in my head. From Wordnik.com. [Carter Phipps: My Mind Is Like My Mother] Reference
There are good reasons for the restraints imposed by 'superego'. From Wordnik.com. [The Existentialist Cowboy] Reference
This is the moral center which is more than superego. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen C. Rose: Psychosynthesis -- A Personal Statement] Reference
She's setting up 2012 as a battle between id and superego. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Title Genius; Peeling Back the Language of America By Heart] Reference
The first idea is that we are more than id, ego and superego. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen C. Rose: Psychosynthesis -- A Personal Statement] Reference
The superego has no business judging us or telling us what to do. From Wordnik.com. [How Progressives Undermine Their Power] Reference
They have a superego; they're remorseful, not manipulative or crafty. From Wordnik.com. [‘Better-Off Dead’] Reference
If Larry was the ego and Hank was the id, then Artie was the superego. From Wordnik.com. [After Ellen , NBC Heads Into Gay Territory ... Farewell, Larry Sanders, Your Hair Was Nice] Reference
The latter includes all our defence mechanisms and most of the superego. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Now, we've all heard the psychology theories about the id, ego and superego. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
You've created these superego, high-powered evangelistic types of people. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris] Reference
I thought that's why Freud, in his beneficent greatness, gave us a superego, no?. From Wordnik.com. [Lieberman Calls Dems The "Democrat Party"] Reference
We concede power to the superego because it's so intimidating and authoritarian. From Wordnik.com. [How Progressives Undermine Their Power] Reference
Super Bowl superconductivity superconductivity superconductor superego superlative. From Wordnik.com. [Entry Index: Super Bowl to Tippecanoe and Tyler too] Reference
We wear away the superego and get straight to the id, and what we see isn't pretty. From Wordnik.com. [We Pay Them to Be Rude to Us] Reference
Psychoanalysis says this compulsion has its source in the superego or inner critic. From Wordnik.com. [Rush Limbaugh and the Power of the Negative] Reference
Forget Bush's superego-he either doesn't have this essential or it's morbidly obese. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Id and Fat Superego of George Bush] Reference
A tiny, squawking, annoying part of my superego believes that the island is too fragile. From Wordnik.com. [I Hardly Hart New Hjork] Reference
Mrs. Posen, who describes herself as "64 and proud of it," is the superego to her son's id. From Wordnik.com. ['Mom, I'll Make a Profit Soon'] Reference
Tesla's Big Idea was to start with an electric car that appeals to the id, not the superego. From Wordnik.com. [Electric Car Maker Aims] Reference
My friend became a superb psychiatrist and can tell you exactly where the superego is located. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jon LaPook: Body Language: Knowing Your Parts] Reference
This conflict enables the superego to run us ragged with its constant badgering and belittling. From Wordnik.com. [How Progressives Undermine Their Power] Reference
We can think of Mara as the aspect of mind often referred to as the ego, or perhaps the superego. From Wordnik.com. [Noah Levine: Sid - The Rebel Saint - Part II] Reference
Ideals and aspirations constituting the good rested on ego-formation or on ego-superego relations. From Wordnik.com. [RIGHT AND GOOD] Reference
His theories introduced concepts such as those of the id and superego into the language of psychiatry. From Wordnik.com. [Freud, Sigmund] Reference
At the same time, aggressiveness creates a pervasive sense of guilt under the pressure of the superego. From Wordnik.com. [IDEOLOGY] Reference
If the social drama is our superego, then the horror movie is our id, our wild, unruly inner adolescent. From Wordnik.com. [Bloody Good Flicks] Reference
The superego grows out of the id as an adaptation to allow it to better achieve its goals, not vice versa. From Wordnik.com. [Paradigm Assessment Schemata (Part 2)] Reference
They are internalized by us (some even to the extent of forming part of the almighty superego, the conscience). From Wordnik.com. [The Egoistic Friend] Reference
The superego and ego, responding to social demands, are often in conflict with the primitive impulses of the id. From Wordnik.com. [superego] Reference
All my life, it says, I have been told by my superego that dressing like a Marvel superhero will not get me laid. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: May 25, 2003 - May 31, 2003 Archives] Reference
The loss of collective joy appears to have made us more vulnerable in our lonely inner stand against the superego. From Wordnik.com. [Next Time We March--Dance!] Reference
As regards two other important assumptions, the structural (ego, superego, id) and the adaptive, Crews says little specifically. From Wordnik.com. [High Tide] Reference
And before the superego could react, the truck was pulled onto a sideroad, waiting for traffic to thin so's we could turn around. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
In addition, the self of many people is quashed by what the Sufis call “the commanding self” and psychoanalysis calls the superego. From Wordnik.com. [The Secular Soul of Democracy] Reference
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