Superego
Research News and Information

Sunday, November 22, 2009

"In pursuit of the Nazi mind?" The deployment of psychoanalysis in the Allied struggle against Germany.

30 Dec 2008 This paper discusses how psychoanalytic ideas were brought to bear in the Allied struggle against the Third Reich and explores some of the claims that were made about this endeavour. It shows how a variety of studies of Fascist psychopathology, ... Read more...

Otherness in interior identity: a reflection about the Freudian concepts of unconscious, superego, and id.

30 Oct 2008 Theoretical, psychoanalytical constructs referring to the unconscious, the superego, and id, enjoy an autonomy within the I. As such, this study contemplates the discussion of these foreign entities that inhabit the interior of the I, producing an ... Read more...

Mother, melancholia, and humor in Erik H. Erikson's earliest writings.

10 Jun 2008 Erik H. Erikson wrote three articles when he was in his late-twenties and an up-and-coming member of the psychoanalytic community in Vienna. At the time he wrote these articles, he was in a training psychoanalysis with Anna Freud, teaching at the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Superego'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• II. The developmental progression from infancy to rapprochement. 30 Mar 2009
• "In pursuit of the Nazi mind?" The deployment of psychoanalysis in the Allied struggle against Germany. 30 Dec 2008
• Otherness in interior identity: a reflection about the Freudian concepts of unconscious, superego, and id. 30 Oct 2008
• Mother, melancholia, and humor in Erik H. Erikson's earliest writings. 10 Jun 2008
• Culture endangered. 30 Mar 2008
• Reflections on Loewald's "Internalization, separation, mourning, and the superego". 29 Sep 2007
• Seduction and the vicissitudes of translation: the work of Jean Laplanche. 29 Sep 2007
• A letter to Hans Loewald. 29 Sep 2007
• The psychoanalyst as a new old object, an old new object, and a brand new object: reflections on Loewald's ideas about the role of internalization in life and in psychoanalytic treatment. 29 Sep 2007
• Internalization, separation, mourning, and the superego. 1962. 29 Sep 2007
• On evading analysis by becoming an analyst. 30 Aug 2007
• The superego, narcissism and Great Expectations. 30 May 2007
• Communicating with the schizophrenic superego revisited: a new technique. 30 Dec 2006
• Introduction to "communicating with the schizophrenic superego revisited: a new technique". 30 Dec 2006
• What if there is an ethical dimension in psychoanalysis? 30 Dec 2006
• Commentary on "Freud, Darwin, and the holding environment" by Richard Brockman. 30 Dec 2006
• Reading Loewald: Oedipus reconceived. 30 May 2006
• The invention of purgatory: a note on the historical pedigree of the superego. 30 Dec 2005
• Paul Gray's narrowing scope: a "developmental lag" in his theory and technique. 30 Dec 2005
• [So-called complex ego-functions, psychic cross findings and valuation of efficiency in medical expert assessment of psychogenic diseases] 30 Aug 2005

See a longer list of these articles.

Technical information about 'Superego'

Definition: The component of the personality associated with ethics, standards, and self-criticism - the "conscience". It is derived mainly from identification with parents and parent substitutes.

Descriptor UI: D013475

Alternative terms: Superego; Superegos;

Tree Number: F01.752.747.859; F02.739.794.881;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: no qualif