Example sentences for: superego

How can you use “superego” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If Bennett is superego, Coulter is id.

  • The magazine's food columnist gushes over Martha Stewart, calling her "America's superego."

  • The man who had been the charismatically firm "superego" of the school (as he called himself) during its early years could be--and often was--a brutal id by the end.

  • In paintings such as Hierarchical Birds (1944), the messy profusion of feathers and tails and eyes is meant to convey the tangle of the psyche, while the three layers of color in the background might correspond to Freud's tripartite division of superego, ego, and id.

  • Also: Newspapers are society's ego, and editorial pages are the superego.


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