You ought to! : a psychoanalytic study of the superego and conscience

Summary: 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 gender all these questions and others have been the source of lively disagreement. For psychoanalysts it is a fundamental concept of their discipline, but it belongs to a meta psychology whose value is o.

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ISBN: 1849405565
ISBN: 9781849405560
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 173 pages)
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Publisher: London : Karnac, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.