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The term '"[[superego]]' ([[Fr]]. ''[[surmoi]]'') " does not appear until quite late in [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|work]], [[being ]] first introduced in ''[[The Ego and the Id]] '' (1923).

It was in this [[work]] that [[Freud]] developed a introduced his so-called "[[structural model]]" of , in which the [[psyche]], is [[divided ]] into [[three ]] [[agencies]]:* the [[ego]], * the [[id]] and * the [[superego]].

However, the [[concept ]] of a [[moral agency ]] which judges and censures the [[ego]] can be found in [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|work]] long before he locates these functions in the [[superego]], such as in his concept of [[censorship]].

[[Lacan]]'s first [[discussion ]] of the [[superego]] comes in his article articule on the [[family]].<ref>Lacan, 1938</ref>

In this work he distinguishes clearly between the [[superego]] and the '''[[ego-ideal]]''', [[terms ]] which [[Freud]] seems to use interchangeably in ''[[The Ego and the Id]]''.

He argues that the primary function of the [[superego]] is to [[repress]] [[desire|sexual]] [[desire]] for the [[mother]] in the [[resolution ]] of the [[Oedipus complex]].

Following [[Freud]], he argues that the [[superego]] results from [[Oedipal]] [[identification]] with the [[father]], but he also refers to [[Kleinian psychoanalysis|Melanie Klein]]'s [[thesis ]] on the [[maternal ]] origins of an archaic [[form ]] of the [[superego]].<ref>Lacan, {{1938: }} p. 59-60</ref>

===Symbolic Law===When Lacan returns to the subject of the superego in his 1953-4 [[Lacanseminar]] ; he locates it in the [[superegosymbolic|symbolic order]] in , as opposed to the [[symbolicimaginary|imaginary order]] of the [[orderego]]."The : the [[superego]] is essentially located within the [[symbolic|symbolic plane ]] of [[speech]]."<ref>{{SlS1}} p.102</ref>The [[superego]] has a close relationship with the [[Law]], but this relationship is a [[paradox]]ical one.

The [[lawsuperego]] as such is has a close [[symbolic]] [[structurerelationship]] which regulates with the [[subjectivityLaw]] and in , but this sense prevents [[disintegration]]relationship is a paradoxical one.

On the other one hand, the [[lawLaw]] of the as such is a [[symbolic]] [[structure]] which regualtes [[superegosubjectivity]] has a "senseless, blind character, of pure imperativeness and simple tyranny."<ref>{{Sl}} pin this [[sense]] prevents disintegration.102</ref>

Thus "On the other hand, the [[law]] of the superegohas a "[[senseless]] is at one , blind [[character]], of pure imperativeness and the same time the law and its destructionsimple tyranny."<ref>{{SlS1}} p.102</ref>

The [[<blockquote>Thus "the superego]] arises from the misunderstanding of is at one and the same [[lawtime]], from the [[gap]]s in the [[symbolic]] [[chain]], law and fills out those [[gap]]s with an [its [imaginary]] [[substitute]] that distorts the [[lawdestruction]] ."<ref>{{S1}} p. 102</ref></blockquote>

attempt to avoid The superego arises from the ambiguity and equivocation misunderstanding of the [[law]], from the [[gap]]s in the [[symbolic]] [[discoursechain]], it is precisely this ambiguity which and fills out those [[gap]]s with an [[imaginary]] [[substitute]] that distorts the [[psychoanalysislaw]] thrives on.<ref>{{E}} p. 143</ref>

===Philosophy===More specifically, in [[linguistic]] terms, '"the [[superego]] is an imperative."<ref>{{SlS1}} p.102</ref>

In 1962, [[Lacan]] argues that this is none other than the [[Kant]]ian [[categorical imperative]].

The specific imperative involved is the command '"Enjoy!'"; the [[superego]] is the [[Other]] insofar as the [[Other]] commands the [[subject]] to [[enjoy]].

The [[superego]] is thus the expression of the [[superego|will-to-enjoy]] (volontÈ ''volonte de [[jouissance]]''), which is not the [[subject]]'s own will but the will of the [[Other]], who assumes the form of [[Sade]]'s "Supreme Being-in-[[Evil]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.773</ref>

The [[superego]] is an "[[obscene]], ferocious [[Figure]]"<ref>{{E}} p.256</ref> which imposes '"a senseless, destructive, purely oppressive, almost always anti-legal legel [[morality' ]]" on the [[neurotic ]] [[subject]].<ref>{{SlS1}} p.102</ref>

The [[superego]] is related to the [[voice]], and thus to the invoking [[drive]] and to [[sadism]]/[[masochism]].

==See Also=={{See}}* [[Ego]]* [[Desire]]||* [[Drive]]* [[Id]]||* [[Identification]]* ''[[Category:DictionaryJouissance]]''||* [[Category:Jacques LacanLaw]]* [[Oedipus complex]]||* [Category:Terms[Philosophy]]* [[Category:ConceptsRepression]]||* [[Structure]]* [[Category:PsychoanalysisSymbolic]]{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div> {{OK}} __NOTOC__