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The term "[[superego]]" does not appear until quite late in [[Freud]]'s work, being first introduced in ''The Ego and the Id'' (1923).
The superego is thus the expression of the will-to-enjoy (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-legel morality" on the [[neurotic]] [[subject]].<ref>{{s1S1}} p.102</ref>
The [[superego]] is related to the [[voice]], and thus to the invoking drive and to sadism/masochism.
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