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superego noun. Pl. -os. E20.
[from SUPER- 2 + EGO.]
Psychoanalysis. In Freudian theory: the part of the mind which internalizes parental and social prohibitions or ideals early in life and imposes them as a censor on the wishes of the ego; the agent of self-criticism.