How to Use superego in a Sentence

superego

noun
  • The curator was like the superego, burying ninety-nine per cent of thoughts in the dark.
    — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Car buyer superegos have welcomed these improvements and choose safer models, all other things being equal.
    — Dan Albert, Vox, 21 June 2019
  • But Freud assumed that healthy people operate under the restraint of the superego, which is shaped by social norms.
    — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • Spider-Man was the perfect expression of that adolescent angst of id versus superego.
    — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2017
  • One is a maniacal superego, hellbent on control at all costs in a misguided attempt to find safety.
    — Kate Siber, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The Twitter prompts are an outsourcing of the superego, the little warning voice in our heads externalized as a piece of code.
    — Laurence Scott, Wired, 14 July 2021
  • Freud introduced the idea of the superego in the 1920s to describe how one part of our personality judges other parts.
    — Michael S. Roth, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Fox will get worse because Fox is the unchained id of the American right, and there exists no superego (the self-critical conscience) on the right to check it.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Understanding the Superego Around the age of six, Freud theorized that a person’s superego began to form.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The superego is the intellectualized philosophy of the movement — the thinkers.
    — Ben Shapiro, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
  • If Rubio is the president’s superego, Miller is his id, and American foreign policy is the complex.
    — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Snooki is perpetually and jubilantly tipsy, Ronnie is sour and reserved, and Vinny is the guido superego.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Challenging Freud's Superego Concept Freud’s concept of the superego is one theory that current neurological research doesn't support.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023

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