The petrified ego : a new theory of conscience / Elizabeth Reddish.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Karnac Books, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (123 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9781782410959
- BF173 .P487 2014
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; CHAPTER TWO The protective superego; CHAPTER THREE "Totem and Taboo" revisited; CHAPTER FOUR Two types of morality; CHAPTER FIVE Two types of reality-testing; CHAPTER SIX A new theory of conscience; CHAPTER SEVEN Concluding remarks; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.
In this book the author makes the case for two generically distinct types of Superego, with the contention that there is a gap in the Freudian theory of the Oedipal Superego which has been recognised since its inception, but never formulated in a full revision of the theory. There are thus, Reddish argues, two distinct kinds of morality implicit in Freudian theory. Further, she maintains that there are two distinct kinds of relationship to reality which correlate with these two kinds of morality. Freud believed that morality originates in the imperative for physical survival: 'the initial help.
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