184 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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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






