superego

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And the third level is reflective, which is, if you like the superego, it's a little part of the brain that has no control over what you do, no control over the -- doesn't see the senses, doesn't control the muscles.

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  1. noun In Freudian theory, the division of the unconscious that is formed through the internalization of moral standards of parents and society, and that censors and restrains the ego.

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  • “Dow Jones down fifteen points, Federated Confidence up three, incoming briefing on causal decoupling of social control of skirt hem lengths, shaving pattern of beards, and emergence of multidrug antibiotic resistance in gram negative bacilli: accept Ah kin tae it,” Jack mumbles, and a torrent of images crashes down on his eyeballs and jackhammers its way in through his ears like the superego of a disembodied giant. —  Asimov's SF, Feb 2002
  • Every day at about eleven A.M., right after Karl took the specimen from my superego, I slunk off to the creek and spent a half-hour adding rocks, logs, and mud to the burgeoning levees, returning to the cottage in time for lunch. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • The brief full-on sax solo at the end is surprising, but also totally logical in context - after a few minutes dominated by the superego, it makes sense that the finale would be all id. —  Fluxblog
  • Institution of superego: control of instinctual impulses • 12 - young adult - genital; reawakening of sexual drives - relationships - Sexual maturation - Sexual identity, ability to love and work —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • There seem to be some differences between his account of the superego in the wake of the decline of symbolic efficiency and Zizek's. —  I cite
 

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  1. New Latin (translation of German Überich : über-, over, above + Ich, ego a special use of ich, I, as a psychoanalytic term) : Latin super-, super- + New Latin ego, ego; see ego.
 

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