1st Edition
The Still Small Voice Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience
By Donald L. Carveth
Copyright 2013
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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Whereas Freud himself viewed conscience as one of the functions of the superego, in The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience, the author argues that superego and conscience are distinct mental functions and that, therefore, a fourth mental structure, the conscience, needs to be added to the psychoanalytic structural theory of the mind. He claims that while both... Read more
Foreword , Preface , The moral ambiguity of psychoanalysis , Clinical Realm , On the nature and varieties of guilt , Conscience vs. superego and the bestialising of the id , Self-punishment as guilt evasion , Less recognised manifestations of guilt: the old and new hysterias , Harry Guntrip: a fugitive from guilt? , Two case studies , Cultural Realm , Modernity and its discontents , Psychopathy, evil, and the death drive , Resurrecting “dead” metaphors in psychoanalysis and religion , Dead end kids: projective identification and sacrifice in Orphans , Summary
Biography
Donald L Carveth
