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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As we saw earlier, it was out of this primal conflict that human societies and the superego first emerged.
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Finally, the superego again acts as regulator over the tendency towards maximum inclusive fitness.
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Giddens in particular has pointed to the very varying ways in which Freud used the words id, ego and superego .
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My adolescence was a triumph of the superego over the id.
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Nevertheless, Freud did detect a providential, protective element in the superego .
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The agency implicated in these is clearly not the id, nor simply the ego, but rather the superego .
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The decline of the superego disturbs the equilibrium to a dangerous degree.
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They started to talk about the ego, id and superego as if they were physical realities located in the body.