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<blockquote>The superego may bring fresh needs to the fore, but its chief function remains the ''limitation'' of satisfactions.<ref>{{OoPA}} Ch. 2</ref></blockquote>
===Superego and Its Relation to the Ego===
<blockquote>The details of the relation between the ego and the superego become completely intelligible if they are carried back to the child's attitude toward his parents. The parents' influence naturally includes not merely the personalities of the parents themselves but also the racial, national, and family traditions handed on through them as well as the demands of the immediate social milieu which they represent. In the same way, an individual's superego in the course of his development takes over contributions from later successors and substitutes of his parents, such as teachers, admired figures in public life, or high social ideals.<ref>{{OoPA}} Ch. 1</ref></blockquote>
===Superego as Father-Substitute===
<blockquote>The super-ego arises, as we know, from an identification with the father regarded as a model. Every such identification is in the nature of a desexualization or even of a sublimation.<ref>{{E&I}} Ch. 5</ref></blockquote>
===Superego and Its Relation to the Id===
<blockquote>In spite of their fundamental difference, the id and the superego have one thing in common: they both represent the influences of the past (the id the influence of heredity, the superego essentially the influence of what is taken over from other people), whereas the ego is principally determined by the individual's own experience, that is to say by accidental and current events.<ref>{{OoPA}} Ch. 1</ref></blockquote>
===Superego and the Oedipus Complex===
<blockquote>The superego is in fact the heir to the Oedipus complex and only arises after that complex has been disposed of.<ref>{{OoPA}} Ch. 8</ref></blockquote>
{{Freudian Dictionary}}
