superego
su·pe·rego
noun
1.
(psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience
Origin
From super + ego, from earlier form super-ego, calqued after German Über-Ich, from über- (“super-”) + Ich (“ego”), from the pronoun ich (“I”).
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