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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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Thus, the superego will animate simple restrictions and will raise them to the rank of false parents.
However, if the coherent-self draws from the superego some elements, it is completely different.
This superego is fed with parental and social prohibitions and it builds its own moral charter.
His way out is use trickery in his intervention by developing benevolent desires that his superego will preserve.
The superego and the harmful influence of the desire to be refractory to coherence are present proportionally to his resignation.
She has this big box of sensual anger that's all neatly locked up by her superego.

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