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Guilt (Ideas in Psycholanalysis) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for GuiltA mini-essay which illuminates the psychoanalytical concept of guilt and its relationship to the way people lead real lives. It is jargon-free and includes examples taken from the lives of well-known people, and from art, music, poetry and literature.
Full description- Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
- Published: 01 November 2000
- Format: Paperback 80 pages
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- Categories: Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology) | Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology | Psychology: Emotions | Popular Psychology
- ISBN 13: 9781840461909 ISBN 10: 184046190X
- Sales rank: 468,350
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Full description for Guilt
A sense of guilt is a uniquely human experience, and a major theme in explorations of the human imagination, from Greek tragedy to headline condemnations of murderers and child abusers. A sense of guilt in the real world of moral transgressions would seem to be necessary to hold society together, but many people experience guilty feelings which cannot be explained in terms of their conscious values. Where do these feelings come from? Psychoanalysis suggest that this neurotic form of guilt has its origins in childhood and the ambivalent unconscious feelings the child has towards internal representations of parental figures. In one interpretation, guilt occurs when the child's unconscious sexual, aggressive and destructive feelings conflict with its fear of destroying the source of love and security. The author explains the analytic ideas involved, and goes on to illuminate the consequent adult states of mind generated by neurotic guilt and its effect on society and culture.
