How to Use superego in a Sentence

superego

noun

• Instead, Deb now serves as the superego to Dexter's id.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• The curator was like the superego, burying ninety-nine per cent of thoughts in the dark.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• The Twitter prompts are an outsourcing of the superego, the little warning voice in our heads externalized as a piece of code.
  — Laurence Scott, Wired, 14 July 2021
• It’s to the superego that the dawning sense of American embarrassment should retreat and set up shop.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• But Freud assumed that healthy people operate under the restraint of the superego, which is shaped by social norms.
  — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• Not that Lara never functioned as Bobby’s superego, no.
  — refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Spider-Man was the perfect expression of that adolescent angst of id versus superego.
  — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2017
• Car buyer superegos have welcomed these improvements and choose safer models, all other things being equal.
  — Dan Albert, Vox, 21 June 2019
• The superego is the intellectualized philosophy of the movement — the thinkers.
  — Ben Shapiro, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
• One is a maniacal superego, hellbent on control at all costs in a misguided attempt to find safety.
  — Kate Siber, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022
• Addington wants to satisfy the demands not of an ever-hungry superego but simply of common decency: to do his duty as husband and father, but at a time when the demands of duty can be met only at the cost of his integrity.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• But there is a classic Freudian map to this anecdote: Cursing is the anarchic and uncivilized id, while the superego (associated with the father) is represented by the cops, and the ideal of an earlier, more orderly New York.
  — Philip Kennicott, The Denver Post, 24 May 2017
• Snooki is perpetually and jubilantly tipsy, Ronnie is sour and reserved, and Vinny is the guido superego.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• Mr. Clooney’s character, Lee Gates, is the kind of charming, egotistic broadcast peacock who requires a tough, honest, outwardly-cynical-but-secretly-idealistic, behind-the-scenes superego.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 12 May 2016

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024