The term "[[superego]]" does not appear until quite late in [[Freud]]'s work, being first introduced in ''The Ego and the Id'' (1923).{{Top}}surmoi{{Bottom}}
It was ==Sigmund Freud==The term "[[superego]]" does not appear until quite late in this work that [[Freud]] 's [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|work]], being first introduced his so-called "structural model", in which the psyche is divided into three agencies: the ego, the id ''[[The Ego and the superegoId]]'' (1923).
HoweverIt was in this work that [[Freud]] introduced his so-called "[[structural model]]", in which the concept of a moral agency which judges and censures [[psyche]] is divided into three [[agencies]]: the [[ego can be found in Freud's work long before he locates these funcitons in ]], the [[id]] and the [[superego, such as in his concept of censorship]].
--However, the concept of a [[moral agency]] which judges and censures the [[ego]] can be found in [[Freud]]'s [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|work]] long before he locates these functions in the [[superego]], such as in his concept of [[censorship]].
==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan]]'s first discussion of the [[superego ]] comes in her his articule on the [[family]].
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>{{L1938}} o.1938. p.59-60</ref>
===Symbolic Law===When [[Lacan]] returns to the [[subject]] of the [[superego]] in his 1953---4 [[seminar]]; he locates it in the [[symbolic|symbolic order]], as opposed to the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] of the [[ego]]: the [[superego]] is essentially located within the [[symbolic|symbolic plane]] of [[speech]].<ref>{{S1}} p. 102</ref>
When The [[Lacansuperego]] returns to has a close relationship with the subject of the superego in his 1953-4 seminar; he locates it in the symbolic order[[Law]], as opposed to the imaginary order of the ego: the superego but this relationship is essentially located within the symbolic plane of speech.<ref>{{S1}} pa paradoxical one.102</ref>
The superego has a close relationship with On the one hand, the [[Law, but this relationship ]] as such is a paradoxical one[[symbolic]] [[structure]] which regualtes [[subjectivity]] and in tis sense prevents disintegration.
On the one other hand, the Law as such is [[law]] of the [[superego]] has a symbolic structure which regualtes subjectivity "senseless, blind character, of pure imperativeness and in tis sense prevents disintegrationsimple tyranny.<ref>{{S1}} p.102</ref>
On <blockquote>Thus "the other hand, superego is at one and the same time the law of the superego has a "senseless, blind character, of pure imperativeness and simple tyrannyits destruction."<ref>{{S1}} p.102</ref></blockquote>
Thus "the The [[superego is at one and ]] arises from the same time misunderstanding of the [[law ]], from the [[gap]]s in the [[symbolic]] [[chain]], and its destructionfills out those [[gap]]s with an [[imaginary]] [[substitute]] that distorts the [[law]]."<ref>{{S1E}} p.102143</ref>
The ===Philosophy===More specifically, in [[superegolinguistic]] arises from the misunderstanding of the lawterms, from "the gaps in the symbolic chain, and fills out those gaps with superego is an imaginary substitute that distorts the lawimperative."<ref>{{ES1}} p.143102</ref>
---In 1962, [[Lacan]] argues that this is none other than the [[Kant]]ian categorical imperative.
More specifically, in linguistic terms, The specific imperative involved is the command "Enjoy!"; the [[superego ]] is an imperative."<ref>{{S1}} pthe [[Other]] insofar as the [[Other]] commands the [[subject]] to [[enjoy]].102</ref>
In 1962The [[superego]] is thus the expression of the [[superego|will-to-enjoy]] (''volonte de jouissance''), which is not the [[Lacansubject]] argues that this is none other than 's own will but the will of the [[Other]], who assumes the Kantian categorical imperativeform of Sade's "Supreme Being-in-Evil."<ref>{{Ec}} p.773</ref>
The specific imperative involved [[superego]] is the command an "obscene, ferocious Figure"<ref>{{E}} p. 256</ref> which imposes "Enjoy!a senseless, destructive, purely oppressive, almost always anti-legel morality"; the superego is the Other insofar as the Other commands on the [[neurotic]] [[subject to enjoy]].<ref>{{S1}} p.102</ref>
The [[superego ]] is thus the expression of the will-related to-enjoy (volonte de jouissance''), which is not the subject's own will but the will of the Other[[voice]], who assumes and thus to the form of Sade's 'Supreme Being-in-Evilinvoking [[drive]] and to [[sadism/masochism]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.773</ref>
The ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Ego]]* [[Desire]]||* [[Drive]]* [[Id]]||* [[Identification]]* ''[[Jouissance]]''||* [[Law]]* [[Oedipus complex]]||* [[superegoPhilosophy]] is an "obscene, ferocious Figure"<ref>{{E}} p.256</ref> which imposes "a senseless, destructive, purely oppressive, almost always anti-legel morality" on the * [[Repression]]||* [[neuroticStructure]] * [[subjectSymbolic]].<ref>{{S1Also}} p.102</ref>
The [[superego]] is related to the [[voice]], and thus to the invoking drive and to sadism==References==<references/masochism.>
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