... almost came to blows with a White woman at her work, because of the racist jokes that she told in the predominantly White department. Howard, at her wit's end retorted, "You know, Nellie, you're a racist pig!" Although she was serious, Howard incorporated her jab into a joke, which delivered the general meaning but soothed the impact. Her superego, her unconscious conscience, restrained her ego, her conscious ... psyche; because it knew that disrespecting a coworker was ethically immoral. The function of the superego is to resist the ego, because it is a matter of doing the right thing ...

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