Super Ego

The Ego and the Id. A prominent paper studying of the human psyche outlining his theories of the psychodynamics of the id, ego, and super-ego, which is of fundamental importance in the development of psychoanalytic theory. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2009)

Naked men and women are on a neutral background where makeup comes great prominence, even avoiding the recognition of the models, thus reflecting on the idea of identity and a proposal for the makeup as a contemporary mask that protects us, on the one hand like a camouflage and the other helping us to build a super-ego. ❋ Evelyne Politanoff (2011)

As those of us blessed with an overly health super-ego tend to be. ❋ Delia Lloyd (2012)

I would not be much of a Moral Panicker if I did not defend my Obamist super-ego against my Krugmanist id who says Waah! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Have they translated their super-ego into a dollar number? ❋ Georges Ugeux (2011)

"I have a very strong super-ego that probably tells me things less healthy for me." ❋ Mike Vilensky (2012)

And I don't see anywhere that our President thanked president nut-case in NKorea ... sending Bubba was enough to assuage the super-ego to do what he knew he'd have to do all along. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Efficient Markets and Rational Actors are as bogus as the id, ego, and super-ego. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Strange contrast: Bill Clinton, whose own Id is one for the history books, nonetheless pitched himself to the Democrats 'super-ego, its will to win, and reaped the electoral rewards.) ❋ Bret Stephens (2010)

To tap into her correspondence during the early twenties is to catch a thinning stream of ideas and emotions, to scan a sad record of psychosomatic debility and shriveling super-ego. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

The right to happiness, or to its pursuit, would mean the right to a generous super-ego, the right to a super-ego that was on the side of one's pleasure: one that promoted the view that feeling alive was more important than being right or good. ❋ Adam Phillips (2010)

It is one of Freud's more horrifying ironies that the pursuit of pleasure incites, calls up, the super-ego. ❋ Adam Phillips (2010)

"Our normal sense of guilt," Freud writes, "is the expression of the tension between the ego and the super-ego". ❋ Adam Phillips (2010)

Don't have much confidence in the so-called rights of man, Freud seems to say in his New Introductory Lectures; they are no match for the ferocity of inner morality – the super-ego, or "conscience". ❋ Adam Phillips (2010)

The sappy Mayer super-ego was interviewed by Rolling Stone last month, while the id has been speaking to Playboy. ❋ Unknown (2010)