superegoic

alternative super-egoic

1. Pertaining to the superego.

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   Although reactionaries often present themselves as the proponents of law and order [...], their fundamental concern is not with the law but with its superegoic underside. While invoking the necessity of law and order, reactionary and conservative leaders always demand specific transgressions of the law that constitute its superegoic underside. […]

   2019, Todd McGowan, “Superego and the Law”, in Yannis Stavrakakis, editor, Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory, page 147

   Freud [...shows] that destructiveness is now directed against destructiveness itself, and that because it cannot fully destroy its own destructiveness, it can intensify its operation as a superegoic unleashing. The more intensely the super-ego seeks to renounce the murderous impulse, the more cruel the psychic mechanism becomes.

   2021, Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence