You Ought To!
Subtitle: a Psychoanalytic Study of the Superego and Conscience
By: Bernard Barnett
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780429485367
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychanalyse
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: 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