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superego: a standalone construct

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superego1 CONSTRUCTSuperegoFREUD · 1923

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Psychoanalysis

The internal agency of conscience and ideals

In Freudian psychoanalysis, the superego is one of the three agencies of the structural model of the mind, alongside the id and the ego, formed as the child internalises parental and cultural prohibitions and ideals at the resolution of the Oedipus complex. Freud set out this agency in his 1923 The Ego and the Id, where it functions as conscience and ego ideal, judging the ego and generating guilt. The referent is an internal structure that enforces moral standards within the personality, inferred clinically rather than measured directly.[1]

Unit
The strictness and content of internalised prohibitions and ideals
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Not directly measured; inferred clinically from guilt, self-criticism, and moral functioning

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References

  1. Freud, S. (1989). The ego and the id (J. Strachey, Trans.). W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1923) ISBN 9780393001426

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