superego

• super-ego

From super +‎ ego, from earlier form super-ego, calqued after German Über-Ich, from über- (“super-”) + Ich (“ego”), from the pronoun ich (“I”).

• IPA^(key): /supɛɹiɡoʊ/

  Rhymes: -iːɡəʊ

superego (plural superegos)

1. (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.

• ego
• id

• Pegueros, perogues, pure egos

superego n

1. superego (psychoanalysis)

   Synonym: nadjá

From English superego.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuperˌeɡo/, [ˈs̠upe̞rˌe̞ɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Syllabification^(key): su‧per‧e‧go, su‧pe‧re‧go
• Hyphenation^(key): super‧ego, su‧pe‧re‧go

superego

1. (psychoanalysis) superego

• yliminä

• “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 3 July 2023

From super- +‎ ego. Calque of German Über-Ich.

• IPA^(key): /su.pɛrˈɛ.ɡɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
• Syllabification: su‧per‧e‧go

superego n (indeclinable)

1. (psychoanalysis) superego (part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt)

   Coordinate terms: ego, id

• superego in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• superego in PWN's encyclopedia

• supereu

• Rhymes: -ɛɡu
• Hyphenation: su‧pe‧re‧go

superego m (plural superegos)

1. (psychoanalysis) superego (part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience)

• IPA^(key): /supeˈɾeɡo/ [su.peˈɾe.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Syllabification: su‧pe‧re‧go

superego m (plural superegos)

1. superego

• “superego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024