Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality, Hug HB..

Name: Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality, Hug HB..
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Guilt and Its VicissitudesPsychoanalytic Reflections on Morality\nAuthor(s): Judith M. Hughes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415435970, 978-0415435970\nSynopsis\nHow do psychoanalysts explain human morality?\n\nGuilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality focuses on the way Melanie Klein and successive generations of her followers pursued and deepened Freud's project of explaining man's moral sense as a wholly natural phenomenon.\n\nWith the introduction of the superego, Freud laid claim to the study of moral development as part of the psychoanalytic enterprise. At the same time he reconceptualized guilt: he thought of it not only as conscious, but as unconscious as well, and it was the unconscious sense of guilt that became a particular concern of the discipline he was founding. As Klein saw it, his work merely pointed the way. Judith M. Hughes argues that Klein and contemporary Kleinians.