Psychoanalysis that part of the psyche which is critical of the self or ego and enforces moral standards: at an unconscious level it blocks unacceptable impulses of the id
In Freudian theory, the division of the unconscious that is formed through the internalization of moral standards of parents and society, and that censors and restrains the ego.
Origin: New Latin (translation of German Überich : über-, over, above + Ich, ego a special use of ich, I, as a psychoanalytic term) : Latin super-, super- + New Latin ego, ego; see ego .