1st Edition

The Quest for Conscience and the Birth of the Mind

By Annie Reiner Copyright 2009
184 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a new perspective on conscience as an as yet unrealized human potential, but a potential toward which human beings are naturally driven. A distinction is made between a "mature" or "healthy" conscience - a "conscience capable of maturation" - and the classical notion of the superego; it also postulates that the two may represent two separate lines of development. Conscience is... Read more
Contents- Conscience and superego and the distinction between them.- The relationship between psychological birth and the development of a healthy or mature conscience.- Conscience and consciousness - the development of a mature conscience as dependent on the capacity for consciousness and the capacity to think.- Obstacles to the development of a healthy conscience.

Biography

Annie Reiner