superegos
- plural of superego.
Example Sentences
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Readers with overactive superegos that will torment them if they spend the “extra” time of quarantine reading anything but classics may be struggling with War and Peace right now.
From Slate • May 22, 2020
Most people's superegos dictate that we cannot go around doing whatever we want.
From Salon • Aug. 16, 2019
In reexamining the basics of corporate management, and the bosses who built it, we have an opportunity to disentangle our sense of selfhood from the systemic superegos that surround us.
From Forbes • Sep. 5, 2014
The psychoanalytic view was that children didn’t have the mental capacity for depression; their superegos were not sufficiently developed.
From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2010
“But it’d be even dirtier to think of those clock-watching superegos being strapped to kids’ shoulders.
From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz
