superego
The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social…The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.
» In psychoanalysis, this voice is called the superego, which Freud conceived as the infantile internalizing of parental authority.
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1 sensesThe part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.
Über-Ich, Superego
сверх-я́sverx-já, супер-э́гоsuper-égo
(psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience
Examples
1 sentencesIn psychoanalysis, this voice is called the superego, which Freud conceived as the infantile internalizing of parental authority.
Translations
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Origin
From super + ego, from earlier form super-ego, calqued after German Über-Ich, from über- (From super + ego, from earlier form super-ego, calqued after German Über-Ich, from über- (“super-”) + Ich (“ego”), from the pronoun ich (“I”).
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