super-ego
Noun
Meaning
super-ego (plural super-egos)
Alternative spelling of superego
Examples
At the time at which the Oedipus complex gives place to the super-ego they are something quite magnificent; but later they lose much of this.
Freud, S. The Ego and the Id, Standard Edition 19, pp. 7, 23. The super-ego is the moral component of the psyche, which takes into account no special circumstances in which the morally right thing may not be right for a given situation.
Freud's theory implies that the super-ego is a symbolic internalisation of the father figure and cultural regulations.
Freud suggested that the demands of the super-ego "coincide with the precepts of the prevailing cultural super-ego.
Its task is to find a balance between primitive drives and reality while satisfying the id and super-ego.
The ego and the super-ego are both partly conscious and partly unconscious.