EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -in psychoanalytic theory, anxiety caused by unconscious superego activity that produces feelings of guilt and demands for atonement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Moral anxiety is a function of the development of the superego. Whatever the anxiety, the ego seeks to reduce it. Operating at the unconscious level, it employs defense mechanisms to distort or deny reality.

Detailed explanation-3: -The superego is a part of the unconscious that is the voice of conscience (doing what is right) and the source of self-criticism.

Detailed explanation-4: -The superego is the ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates. The superego’s criticisms, prohibitions, and inhibitions form a person’s conscience, and its positive aspirations and ideals represent one’s idealized self-image, or “ego ideal.”