94 Pages
by
Routledge
94 Pages
by
Routledge
94 Pages
by
Routledge
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This insightful and innovative book sheds light on the complexity of the concept of guilt, while exploring aspects of guilt that have previously been overlooked in psychoanalytic theory and discourse.
Offering original insights on the topic, Donald Carveth looks at Freud's failure to distinguish persecutory guilt from reparative guilt, and the superego from the conscience. The significance of... Read more
Preface 1. Guilt 2. Conscience 3. Guilt evasion in the self, society, and psychoanalysis 4. Conscience vs. superego 5. Two case vignettes 6. Recent contributions to the theory of the superego, guilt and conscience 7. Why I write about guilt
Biography
Donald L. Carveth is an emeritus professor of sociology and social and political thought and a senior scholar at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a past director of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis and a past editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse. He is the author of Psychoanalytic Thinking (2018) and The Still Small Voice (2013).
