Superego Poems - Poems about Superego

On a train, my superego, my ego, and my id

...On a train, my superego, my ego, and my id
saw a beautiful woman on our way to Madrid.
And at my first illicit thought, my superego said, "No!"
And my ego, raising the eyebrows, said, "Oh?"
And m...

Tenterhooks Unglued - 'Cessation' Contest

...
    my disembodied i floats above 
      ego… id… superego 
    constructs psychological
      cum gravitas, or so they are told

    straining, clawing
      the drumbeat frantic
    as min...

The Human Condition

...Up they bubble ,demanding their day
Every appetite in disorderly competition
Blindly leading the body frenziedly
To let them rip and have their way
That is the narrative of the id.

Who am I? H...

Greed to Grace: a Psychodynamic Diamante

...
Id
greedy, primal
starving, seeking, clamoring,
impulsive, wild, mild, deliberative,
prohibiting, sanctioning, tempering,
sangfroid, equanimity,
Superego...

Cathexis

...Psychic energy that is misspent on an idea, 
perhaps an object, and often on a person,
is referred to as a cathexis, an action 
to satisfy an urge or need that can worsen.

In his explored psych...

Overcoming the Influence of I

..."I" lends respectability
To extant personality
And offers much to those it serves -
Perhaps more than it should deserve.

Important as this "I" might be
It lacks depth in humility
And sometime...

Outcast

...Why does one feel outcast?
Why base self-worth on the opinion of others? 
A great and tragic lapse in ego,
irrational thought, and weak superego.
An outcast allows themself to be victim, 
being ...

Truth Discerned

...When I was slain in the spurit I was mostly surprised.
Dehydrated and dizzy, clenching the lids on my eyes
Blood refilling the arms recoiled from a flourescent-lit sky
None left supporting my legs...

Communion Revisited

...Quickly close the door on your past participles and advance your dead bolt on the here and now, lie your present lifemat for the doormat benefit of others that seek your presence unannounced unfolded...

The I

...So many thoughts  
From the shadows Jung might say
The blind drives emerge
It's the burden humans pay

The proposed Id, the ego, the superego
It's not Freudian hyperbole
Its ancient structures...

Dedicated Connections

...In The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying,
Sogyal Rinpoche writes, unconvincingly,
to my left-brain dominant ears,

"No suffering,
however dreadful
[and even mortal],
is 
or can be
meaningless...

Bright Beauty

...If a maturely individuated ego...

Honey, you just left out most of us.
Could you work on being more inclusive?

is organically 
holistically SelfAware,
co-redefining as 
Not some Other consc...

Afflictives

...Centrifugal id
centripetal rede ego
superego waltz...

Free Verse On Love

...Let tonight be red, 
red as a glowing conflagration usually is.
As a fiery meteor crashes upon the earth,
so these argent moonbeams kiss your eyelids,
and enkindle the fire of concupiscence,
whi...

Slow-Cooked Conversion Stories

...as God's literal trans-historical Word
of universal white male dominant
Bible thumping supremacy,
transcendently un-changing like...
like...
like nothing I've ever seen or heard
or smelled or tasted

Which is why we call not-Him-or-Her "God"
and not "SuperEgo"
or multicultural "Gaia"

Or anything else.
It turns out "God"
is a bit like not saying Valdemore's name;
As Yahweh
is more about the ambiguously missing vowels
than their YHWH
YYXY...

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