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superego Freud's definition

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  • Conscience is a component of the superego.†  (source)
  • The previous notion that disposition is everything — that the cause of violent behavior is always "sociopathic personality" or "deficient superego" or the inability to delay gratification or some evil in the genes — is, in the end, the most passive and reactive of ideas about crime.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
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  • Yes, with your talent, my friend, you could work subconscious miracles, soothe the aching id and heal the wounded superego.†  (source)
    superego = psychoanalysis:  that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience
  • But his super-ego...his conscience, could not permit him to go unpunished for such a horrible crime.†  (source)
  • Atonement (at-one-ment) consists in no more than the abandonment of that self-generated double monster—the dragon thought to be God (superego) and the dragon thought to be Sin (repressed id).†  (source)
  • Then your patient could come in at each session and say, 'A little off the top of my anxiety, please,' or 'Don't trim the super-ego too close, if you don't mind,'  (source)
  • You have a strong superego.†  (source)
  • Freud called this the superego.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • But Freud claimed that the superego tells us when our desires themselves are 'bad' or 'improper/ not least in the case of erotic or sexual desire.†  (source)
  • Because this guilt feeling remains in the superego, many people—according to Freud, most people—feel guilty about sex all their lives.†  (source)
  • This thought was on course for a frontal collision with her superego, and was so monstrous an idea that she immediately repressed it, Freud tells us.†  (source)
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