Freud, Sigmund constructed. It is constituted by the internalization of the prohibitions and demands parents make on their children and its role is to emulate them and act as an internal judge and censor the ego. The subject is not necessarily conscious of the superegoâs operation, but its presence is keenly felt as guilt in pathological cases of mourning and melancholia. As Freud theorizes it in his second topography, the superego is formed via a process of gradual separation from the ego when the child stops trying to satisfy their field desires and transforms his or her cathexis with them into an identification. In contrast, Klein, Melanie holds that the superego is present from the earliest stages and forms as a result of the introjection of good and bad object.