Word: superego
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...basic preaching of TA is that the mind has three "ego states": Parent, Adult and Child, which parallel the Freudian categories of superego, ego and id. The Adult is the rational problem solver; in the healthy personality, the Adult controls both the Parent, who keeps trying to enforce ancient injunctions, and the fun-loving Child, who is the victim of the stern Parent. The man who says to himself "Now you've done it!" after making a mistake is using his Parent to reprimand his Child, who usually feels powerless and in the wrong...
...cannot engage in a contest of comparative horrors. Yet there is about the Holocaust a primal and satanic mystery. And no cheap grace can redeem it. The Third Reich was the greatest failure of civilization on the planet. In Freudian terms, it was as if the superego had gone crashing down into the dark, wild...
...director Douglas Day Stewart presents an unnerving and alluring possibility for a thriller, the simultaneous unveiling of deep secrets and the realization of fantasy. Scotty, Ray and Mickey personify Freud's conception of the mind. Scotty is the Id; one's primal nature, impulsive and sensual. Ray represents the superego, law-abiding, secure and conventional. Mickey's the ego in the middle, trying to achieve a balance between the two. "Thief of Hearts" fails to achieve a thoroughly disturbing effect because Mickey suffers from a healthy psyche. She is tempted, she even yields slightly to Scotty, the man who offers...
WHEN SIGMUND FREUD initially began inquiring into the nature of the human psyche, contemporaries passed him off as a sexual crackpot. And while many psychologists today are still wary of reducing all behavior to id, ego and superego, most professionals in the field concede that repressed behavior is fundamental to a well-functioning society...
...Kennedy had eleven children to raise. She did what she could with David and with Bobby. But something in the vigorous family ethic that had driven the second generation now came unhinged in at least part of the third. Bobby Kennedy's assassination may have shaken down the superego, the dynastic sense of discipline, and let loose something anarchic and despairing. David, brilliant and gifted in many ways, seems to have felt an orphan's lostness...