superego

Example Sentences

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“I often wonder,” Tillman reflected recently in the course of an email conversation, “how conscience, a superego, develops, and how becoming conscientious evolves. … My conscience led to my sense of obligation.”

From Los Angeles Times

But it’s not easy to invest in the relationship of the siblings when Japhy comes across as a smirking figure from Alice’s superego.

From Los Angeles Times

Kepnes’s absorbing narrator, Joe Goldberg, the multiple murderer who demonstrates “the shattered barrier between id and superego,” is back for a third book.

From New York Times

No doubt he’ll return in future installments, demonstrating the shattered barrier between id and superego.

From New York Times

If he considers this a matter of political fortune, perhaps the superego thrives by acquitting the id.

From Washington Post