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Guilt - Its Meaning and Significance (Paperback)
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Guilt - Its Meaning and Significance (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Revivals
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It is acknowledged by most students of human behaviour that the
idea of guilt is closely connected with that of man's freedom and
responsibility. It is a theme of law-court and pulpit, a concern of
psychoanalysis and probation officers, a growing pre-occupation of
the novelist. Our era has even been described as a
'guilt-consciousness age'. It comes as a surprise, therefore, to
discover that there are so few modern books in which the meaning of
guilt is thoroughly explored. In the present volume, originally
published in 1962, Dr J.G. McKenzie makes an admirable attempt to
fill the gap. He begins by describing and analysing the various
senses in which the word 'guilt' is used and by making a number of
important distinctions. There follows a close psychological study
of the origin and development of guilty feelings which is illumined
by Dr McKenzie's interpretation of 'negative' and 'positive'
conscience. The author then turns to the legal, ethical and
religious concepts of guilt and examines each with care and
insight, always raising and facing the deepest issues for both
theory and practice. In the concluding section of the book he deals
with the question 'How can the sense of guilt be dissipated?'
Against the backdrop of depth-psychology and theology he offers a
penetrating and provocative understanding of divine forgiveness
which plumbs the deeps both of man's sin and of God's love. Dr
McKenzie writes out of a long lifetime of teaching and of clinical
work in psychotherapy. The range of his reading and interests is
extraordinarily wide. Through all his writing there shines not only
his profound concern for people but his lively and indeed
infectious conviction that man is still in the making and that his
one true Maker is God.
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