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What is a superego?

What is a superego? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (psychoanalysis) The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.
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She has this big box of sensual anger that's all neatly locked up by her superego.
In spite of its destroying side, the superego offers a positive potentiality.
Thus, the superego will animate simple restrictions and will raise them to the rank of false parents.
This superego is fed with parental and social prohibitions and it builds its own moral charter.
However, if the coherent-self draws from the superego some elements, it is completely different.
His need for order, form, and tradition is a substitute for the id impulses that are repressed by his strong superego.

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