Both Uses of
superego
in
Girl Interrupted
- See, the station wagon is the ego, sturdy and reliable, and the sedan is the superego, because it's how you want to present yourself, powerful and impressive, and the sports car is the id—it's the id because it's irrepressible and fast and dangerous and maybe a little forbidden.†
- Earlier in the day, the doctor had a map divided into superego, ego, and id, with all kinds of squiggly, perhaps broken, lines running among those three areas.†
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Definition:
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(superego Freud's definition) psychoanalysis: that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience