Superego

//ˈsupɚˌiɡoʊ//

Synonyms for "superego" (74 found)

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Related terms

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Translations

34 translations across 23 languages.

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Arabic

2 entries
  • الْأَنَا الْأَعْلَى noun (part of the mind)
  • الْأَنَا الْعُلْيَا noun (part of the mind)

Catalan

2 entries
  • superego noun (part of the mind)
  • superjò noun (part of the mind)

Chinese

1 entries
  • 超我 noun (part of the mind)

Czech

3 entries
  • nad-já noun (part of the mind)
  • nadjá noun (part of the mind)
  • superego noun (part of the mind)

Danish

2 entries
  • overjeg noun (part of the mind)
  • superego noun (part of the mind)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • superegoo noun (part of the mind)
  • supermio noun (part of the mind)

Finnish

1 entries
  • yliminä noun (part of the mind)

French

1 entries
  • surmoi noun (part of the mind)

Galician

1 entries
  • superego noun (part of the mind)

German

2 entries
  • Superego noun (part of the mind)
  • Über-Ich noun (part of the mind)

Greek

1 entries
  • υπερεγώ noun (part of the mind)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • אני עליון noun (part of the mind)

Hindi

1 entries
  • पराहम् noun (part of the mind)

Irish

1 entries
  • os-mhise noun (part of the mind)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 超自我 noun (part of the mind)

Persian

1 entries
  • فراخود noun (part of the mind)

Polish

1 entries
  • superego noun (part of the mind)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • superego noun (part of the mind)
  • supereu noun (part of the mind)

Russian

2 entries
  • сверх-я́ noun (part of the mind)
  • супер-э́го noun (part of the mind)

Spanish

2 entries
  • superego noun (part of the mind)
  • superyó noun (part of the mind)

Swedish

1 entries
  • överjag noun (part of the mind)

Thai

1 entries
  • ซูเปอร์อีโก noun (part of the mind)

Turkish

2 entries
  • süperego noun (part of the mind)
  • üstbenlik noun (part of the mind)

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In psychoanalysis, this voice is called the superego, which Freud conceived as the infantile internalizing of parental authority.

Source: tatoeba (2866387)

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.

Source: wiktionary

Anthropic has positioned itself as the AI industry’s superego: the firm that speaks with the most authority about the big questions surrounding the technology, while rival companies develop advertisements and affiliate shopping links […].

Source: wiktionary

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