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Superego Poems - Poems about Superego

Premium Member 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......

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Categories: superego, humorous, psychological, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: superego, me, universe,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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......

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Categories: superego, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Greed to Grace: a Psychodynamic Diamante
... Id greedy, primal starving, seeking, clamoring, impulsive, wild, mild, deliberative, prohibiting, sanctioning, tempering, sangfroid, equanimity, Superego......

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Categories: superego, culture, life, psychological,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: superego, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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......

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Categories: superego, character, future, hope, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: superego, hate, identity, image, integrity,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: superego, atheist, evil, god, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: superego, confusion, inspirational, my children,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: superego, allegory, appreciation, care, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: superego, earth, health, light, power,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: superego, birth, earth, health, light,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Afflictives
...Centrifugal id centripetal rede ego superego waltz......

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Categories: superego, emotions, mental illness, self,
Form: Haiku
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......

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Categories: superego, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: superego, childhood, christian, earth, faith,
Form: Political Verse

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