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Guilt and Its Vicissitudes - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality (Paperback, New)
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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 time he
reconceptualized guilt: he thought of it not only as conscious, but
as unconscious as well, and it was the unconscious sense of guilt
that became a particular concern of the discipline he was founding.
As Klein saw it, his work merely pointed the way. Judith M. Hughes
argues that Klein and contemporary Kleinians went on to provide a
more consistent and comprehensive psychological account of moral
development. Hughes shows how Klein and her followers came to
appreciate that moral and cognitive questions are complexly
interwoven and makes clear how this complexity prompted them to
extend the range of their theory. Hughes demonstrates both a
detailed knowledge of the major figures in post-war British
psychoanalysis, and a keen sensitivity to the way clinical
experience informed theory-building. She writes with vigor and
grace, not only about Freud and Klein, but also about such key
thinkers as Riviere, Isaacs, Heimann, Segal, Bion and Joseph. Guilt
and Its Vicissitudes speaks to those concerned with the clinical
application of psychoanalytic theory and to those interested in the
contribution psychoanalysis makes to understanding questions of
human morality.
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