Guilt: Revenge, Remorse and Responsibility After Freud

ISBN-13: 9781583919644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str.

Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca;Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca;Sir Frank Kermode

Opis

Guilt offers an original, closely argued look at the opposition between guilty man and tragic man. Considering the work of Freud and major pioneers of psychoanalysis, and focusing on the debate between Klein and Winnicott, the author attempts to remove blame and the essence of guilt from religion, morality and law. Previously unavailable in the English language this book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, forensic psychiatrists and all those interested in the ramifications of guilt.

Guilt is an original, closely argued examination of the opposition between guilty man and tragic man. Starting from the scientific and speculative writings of Freud and the major pioneers of psychoanalysis to whom we owe the first studies of this complex question, Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca goes on to focus on the debate between Klein and Winnicott in an enlightened attempt to remove blame and the sense of guilt from religion, morality and law.

Drawing on an impressive range of sources - literary, historical and philosophical - and illustrated by studies of composers, thinkers and writers as diverse as Mozart and Chuang Tzu, Shakespeare and Woody Allen, Guilt covers a range of topics including the concept of guilt used within the law, and the analyst's contribution to the client's sense of guilt.

Previously unavailable in English, this book deserves to be read not only by psychoanalysts, philosophers. scholars and forensic psychiatrists interested in the theory of justice, but also be the ordinary educated reader.

Recenzje

Passionate and absorbing, at times, moving and amusing, this book marks a breakthrough in a vast area of human behaviour. - Jan de Viller, Historian

Guilt is not only a legal and moral concept, as well as a state of mind, but it is also an omnipotent way of thinking. This intriguing book leads us to such a conclusion and indeed obliges us to recognise its truth. - Joyce McDougall, author of Theatres of the Mind

A unique book, at once obvious and revealing, which conveys all the nuances of guilt. - Nicolas Barker, Chairman of the London Library

Spis treści

A View from the Past. The Use and Abuse of Theory. The 'Schizophrenic Paradox': Two Types of Logic. The Search for a Name. Responsibility. The Dilating Pupil: Counter-transference. The Devil with Breasts: An Interlude. Ideology and Guilt. The Double Bind and Guilt. Preconscious and Consciousness. Projective Identification and Containment.

O autorze

Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca