What is the unconscious mind? All the drives we don't necessarily see, or understand, about ourselves. Sigmund Freud, the ...

The superego seems to become most potent when the demands of civilization are high. The over-I, which is actually the best translation of Freud’s German term Über-Ich, thrives and expands when social ...

In this world in search of a new order, President Trump is America’s current id and, for many on the MAGA right, Elon Musk is their superego. Freud tells us that the id acts on impulse, while ...

Andrew Hartz worries we have entered a phase of “hypermorality” in which the Freudian superego scolds us for most everything we do (“Freud Explains Cancel Culture,” op-ed, Aug. 8).