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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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In spite of its destroying side, the superego offers a positive potentiality.
His need for order, form, and tradition is a substitute for the id impulses that are repressed by his strong superego.
He has published about 350 scientific articles and is the author of numerous books focusing in particular on the superego and shame.
However, if the coherent-self draws from the superego some elements, it is completely different.
Their continuous presence requires from the superego a continuous activity too.
Its termination is the superego, which is the storehouse of all our memories, habits and conditionings.

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