The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience

ISBN-13: 9780367101756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 352 str.

Donald L. Carveth

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Donald L Carveth