Word: superego
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blue Thursday. The idea is forming in Wylie's mind that Yvonne is really suffering from "vestiges of ... Episcopalian superego" and that it can only be cured by her indulging in a bit of homosexuality herself, when in charges Nuclear Physicist Paul Wilson (Character Wylie's nephew: no relation to Author Wylie). His dank hair is trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes...
...superego. The conscience...
...must-have-it-now, animal drives. The Id's theme song is "I want." Man is born with an Id and soon develops an Ego, which learns the community rules and makes the decisions. The Ego says "I will" or "I won't." Last, there is the Superego, which is the censor or conscience. The Superego says, speaking to the other two, "You must" or "You must not," and demands punishment (in the form of a guilty conscience, worry, etc.) if its commands are violated...
Most personality disorders are caused by conflicts-conscious or unconscious- between selfish desires (the Id), what society demands (the Ego), and what you think is right (the Superego). So Freud concluded, and so most psychiatrists agree...
...first understanding his emotions, and that the key to emotional conduct is observation of physiological reactions. From this starting-point he goes on to consider Freud's analysis of the individual mind and to apply it to society as a whole. The accepted Freudian terms, id, ego, and superego, are used to describe the basic reasons for behavior in every social activity. In one of the chapters, revolutionary dialectic is explained by identifying Marx's thesis, antithesis, and synthesis with Frend's three terms...