Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality

by Judith M. Hughes

How do psychoanalysts explain human morality?

Guilt 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.

With the introduction of the superego, Freud laid claim to the study of moral development as part of the psychoanalytic enterprise. At the same...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415435986
• ISBN13: 9780415435987
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"