superego
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Etymology edit
super + ego, from earlier form super-ego, calqued after German Über-Ich, from über- (“super-”) + Ich (“ego”), from the pronoun ich (“I”).
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superego (plural superegos)
- (psychoanalysis) The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.
- 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 9, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 152:
- Still, it would be an error to believe that psychoanalytic theory makes no contribution to describing and assessing different types of ethical conduct. The crucial notion in this connection is the relative rigidity or flexibility of the superego. The childish, immature, or neurotic superego is rigid; it is characterized by slavish adherence to rules which, moreover, may not be clearly understood. The mature or normal superego, on the other hand, is flexible; it can evaluate the situation at hand and modify the rules accordingly. Thus, in an early, classic paper, Strachey suggested that the basic aim of psychoanalytic treatment is to make such “mutative interpretations” as would help to render the patient’s “rigid superego” more “flexible”.8 Like the psychoanalytic theory of the superego, on which it is based, this view suffers from the limitation of being silent on what sort of rigidity is considered bad or undesirable and what sort of flexibility is considered good or desirable.
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part of the mind
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superego n
- superego (psychoanalysis)
- Synonym: nadjá
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Finnish edit
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superego
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Inflection of superego (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | superego | superegot | ||
genitive | superegon | superegojen | ||
partitive | superegoa | superegoja | ||
illative | superegoon | superegoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | superego | superegot | ||
accusative | nom. | superego | superegot | |
gen. | superegon | |||
genitive | superegon | superegojen | ||
partitive | superegoa | superegoja | ||
inessive | superegossa | superegoissa | ||
elative | superegosta | superegoista | ||
illative | superegoon | superegoihin | ||
adessive | superegolla | superegoilla | ||
ablative | superegolta | superegoilta | ||
allative | superegolle | superegoille | ||
essive | superegona | superegoina | ||
translative | superegoksi | superegoiksi | ||
abessive | superegotta | superegoitta | ||
instructive | — | superegoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading edit
- “superego”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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superego n (indeclinable)
- (psychoanalysis) superego (the part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt)
Further reading edit
- superego in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛɡu
- Hyphenation: su‧pe‧re‧go
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superego m (plural superegos)
- (psychoanalysis) superego (part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience)
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superego m (plural superegos)
Further reading edit
- “superego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014