2015年11月5日 星期四

11/5 week8

super-ego

Id, ego, and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction our mental life is described. According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego. The super-ego can stop one from doing certain things that one's id may want to do.




egocentric(adj.) \ˌē-gō-ˈsen-trik also ˌe-\
caring too much about yourself and not about other people

tantamount(adj.) \ˈtan-tə-ˌmau̇nt\
equal to something in value, meaning, or effect
His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt.


snob(n.) \ˈsnäb\
someone who tends to criticize, reject, or ignore people who come from a lower social class, have less education, etc.
Most of the people in the club are snobs who look down on people who attended public schools.


circumvent(v.) \ˌsər-kəm-ˈvent\
to avoid being stopped by (something, such as a law or rule) : to get around (something) in a clever and sometimes dishonest way
We circumvented the problem by using a different program.

anti-: opposite to something

e-:  away, free from

odd(adj.) \ˈäd\
strange or unusual : different from what is normal or expected
She had an odd look on her face.

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