This agency often operates below the level of consciousness: it’s hard to tune in, hard to hear it. What I’m talking about, you may have guessed, is the agency that Sigmund Freud calls the superego.

In Freud’s theory, the ego is the part of the personality that arbitrates between the animalistic desires of the “id” and the moral and social standards of the “superego.” But ...

Review & Outlook: What started as a row over parental rights legislation has resulted in the Walt Disney Company losing special privileges in Florida—and serves as a wake-up call for other CEOs.

Andrew Hartz worries we have entered a phase of “hypermorality” in which the Freudian superego scolds us for most everything we do (“Freud Explains Cancel Culture,” op-ed, Aug. 8).

It has always seemed obvious that the fundamental question of Superman is moral. Imagine a person who is both endowed with virtually infinite and irresistible powers and is invulnerable to any ...