superego
noun
the part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behavior.
superegos
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pluralof superego.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
The only way you outer-directed moles will accept individuality any more even in a fictional character, without your superegos getting seasick, is for them to be crazy.
From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Fritz Leiber
