1st Edition

You Ought To! A Psychoanalytic Study of the Superego and Conscience

By Bernard Barnett Copyright 2007
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

The superego is one of those psychoanalytic concepts that has been assimilated into ordinary language, like repression, the unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Because it has become such a familiar notion, its complexity may not always be appreciated, nor the controversy that it can inspire. Its origins, for example, its timing in the course of development, whether and how it is influenced by... Read more
Foreword -- Introduction -- The Freudian superego -- The formation and development of the system -- The object and the superego -- Pathology, splitting, and fragmentation in the system: the superego, the object and the Holocaust -- The superego, the self, and morality: contemporary ideas and critical approaches

Biography

Bernard Barnett