The supere-ego is BORN at the moment the Oedipus complex is dissolved, deem as a milestone of the incest conflict is resolved.

> the moral conscience, self-discipline mechanism, operated by producing a sense of GUILT

> Formed by a process called 'Introjection' = the Internalization of parental, especially Paternal Authority --is assimilated by the son into his own psychic constitution(likewise, maternal authority to girls)

>A form of mimesis, imitation of the father; but this imitation also caries with it the prohibition of being exactly like the father --- Father imitated generically, but not individually

> Super-ego is the source of religious feelings; for Freud 'God' is a substitute of superego.

> Super-ego forms the basis of social bonding(Birds of A Feather|Like attracts like):

-- Common Disciplinary rules;

--Not similar 'Egos' but similar 'Super-egos' form Sense of Community

--'Culture, Faith &Values' as Shared Sense of Discipline & Community

> Super-Ego is allied ith the ID/Ego, which remaps the conflictual terrain of the psyche.

--The ID-Ego conflicts that shaped early development of the child mind are compromised to Ego-SuperEgo conflicts

--A demand call by instinct to meet 'Pleasure Principle' (from ID/SELF), not only requires to meet 'call for Reality Principle'(from EGO), but also to meet 'call for Renunciation;(from SuperEGO)

> Shift in Psychoanalytic theory from ID-Analysis(libido drives&instincts) to EGO-Analysis(semi-conscious operations in the psyche)

> Displacement of primal conflicts to a 'Higher' terrain; Struggle of Individual becomes a Cultural or Communal sublimation