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 Superego - definition of Superego in Encyclopedia
The Superego stands in opposition to the desires of the Id. The Superego is itself part of the unconscious mind; it is the internalization of the world view and norms and mores a child absorbs from parents and peers.
The Superego, Freud stated, is the moral agent that links both our conscious and unconscious minds.
Carl Jung saw the Ego (which Freud wrote about in the literal German as "the I", that is, one's conscious experience of what one is) as the center of the conscious part of the psyche.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Superego   (551 words)

  
 Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Superego
Another component of the superego is a person's own concept of perfect behavior, which presents a second standard used to govern actions.
The superego is one of three basic components of human personality, according to Sigmund Freud.
Stored in that child's superego, or conscience, is that moral judgment which will be used in determining future behavior.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0003/ai_2699000336/print   (220 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - superego (Psychology And Psychiatry) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - superego (Psychology And Psychiatry) - Encyclopedia
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/X/X-superego.html   (102 words)

  
 Slavoj Zizek [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
While political subjects maintain a conscious sense of freedom from the explicit norms of their culture, Zizek contends, this disidentification is grounded in their unconscious attachment to the Law as superego, itself an agency of enjoyment.
As we saw in 2e, Zizek’s Lacanian answer is that the perspective that one always presupposes when one speaks in this manner is one that is always “superegoic” (see 2a) — tied to what he terms in Metastases of Enjoyment a “malevolently neutral”, God’s eye view from nowhere.
Zizek’s notion of the split in the Law in this way intersects directly with his notion of ideological disidentification examined in 2b.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/z/zizek.htm   (10966 words)

  
 superego on Encyclopedia.com
Some observations on the superego in China and in the United States.
Psychoanalysis and war: the superego and projective identification.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-superego.asp   (192 words)

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