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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825462303321

Autore

Barnett Bernard R.

Titolo

"You ought to!" : a psychoanalytic study of the superego and conscience / / Bernard Barnett ; series edtors, Inge Wise and Paul Williams ; foreword by Michael Parsons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Karnac, 2007

ISBN

1-78049-454-8

0-429-92436-4

0-429-91013-4

0-429-48536-0

1-283-06921-0

9786613069214

1-84940-556-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Psychoanalytic ideas

Disciplina

154.2

Soggetti

Superego

Conscience

Agent (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; CHAPTER TWO: The Freudian superego; CHAPTER THREE: The formation and development of the system; CHAPTER FOUR: The object and the superego; CHAPTER FIVE: Pathology, splitting, and fragmentation in the system: theuperego, the object, and the Holocaust; CHAPTER SIX: The superego, the self, and morality: contemporarydeas and critical approaches; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

"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 often questioned, and opinions might vary on whether it remains truly alive as a generative, energising idea in contemporary psychoanalysis."--Provided by publisher.