How to Use superego in a Sentence

superego

noun
Definition of superegonext
  • Instead, Deb now serves as the superego to Dexter's id.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The curator was like the superego, burying ninety-nine per cent of thoughts in the dark.
    — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • It’s to the superego that the dawning sense of American embarrassment should retreat and set up shop.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Not that Lara never functioned as Bobby’s superego, no.
    — refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Spider-Man was the perfect expression of that adolescent angst of id versus superego.
    — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2017
  • Car buyer superegos have welcomed these improvements and choose safer models, all other things being equal.
    — Dan Albert, Vox, 21 June 2019
  • The superego is the intellectualized philosophy of the movement — the thinkers.
    — Ben Shapiro, National Review, 11 Sep. 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
  • Addington wants to satisfy the demands not of an ever-hungry superego but simply of common decency: to do his duty as husband and father, but at a time when the demands of duty can be met only at the cost of his integrity.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But there is a classic Freudian map to this anecdote: Cursing is the anarchic and uncivilized id, while the superego (associated with the father) is represented by the cops, and the ideal of an earlier, more orderly New York.
    — Philip Kennicott, The Denver Post, 24 May 2017
  • 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
  • Mr. Clooney’s character, Lee Gates, is the kind of charming, egotistic broadcast peacock who requires a tough, honest, outwardly-cynical-but-secretly-idealistic, behind-the-scenes superego.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 12 May 2016

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