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super-ego

super-ego is the alternative spelling of superego.

Meaning of superego

Noun

superego (plural superegos)

  1. The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.
    • Still, it would be an error to believe that psychoanalytic theory makes no contribution to describing and assessing different types of ethical conduct. The crucial notion in this connection is the relative rigidity or flexibility of the superego. The childish, immature, or neurotic superego is...1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 9, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 152

Forms of super-ego

pluralsuper-egos

Questions about super-ego

What is super-ego the alternative spelling of?
Super-ego is the alternative spelling of superego.

Words near super-ego in the dictionary

  1. super-duperer
  2. super-duperest
  3. super-Earth
  4. super-Earths
  5. super-Eddington
  6. super-ego
  7. super-egoic
  8. super-egos
  9. super-empyreal
  10. super-extremal
  11. super-gargantuan

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