Quest for Conscience and the Birth of the Mind
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conscience development in psychoanalysis
Cosmic Religious Feeling
developmental psychopathology
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Freud's Drive Theory
Freud’s Drive Theory
Healthy Conscience
Ice Cream Sundae
Idealized Maternal Imago
Individual's Moral Actions
Individual’s Moral Actions
Mature Conscience
Mental Birth
Mental Development
metaphysical perspectives
Mind's Capacity
Mind’s Capacity
moral psychology
Mother's Projections
Mother’s Projections
Mr A
Oceanic Feeling
Pathological Superego
Premature Awareness
Primitive Conscience
Primitive Superego
Provisional Morality
Psycho Analytic Vertex
psychoanalytic theory
Psychological Birth
religious cognition
self-identity formation
True Conscience
Unconscious Conscience
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780367106416
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book offers a new perspective on conscience as an as yet unrealized human potential, but a potential toward which human beings are naturally driven. A distinction is made between a "mature" or "healthy" conscience - a "conscience capable of maturation" - and the classical notion of the superego; it also postulates that the two may represent two separate lines of development. Conscience is seen to be inseparable from consciousness; the development of a mature conscience is seen to have its foundation in the development of a true or authentic self, while the classical notion of the superego is viewed as an often pathological manifestation of this natural mental potential. Theological ideas are relevant to any discussion of morality, conscience and guilt. Freud's and Bion's perspectives on religion are closely examined, revealing fundamental differences in their views of the mind. The author incorporates the metaphysical perspective central to Bion's concept of "O" as fundamental to an understanding of the development of a healthy conscience.
Annie Reiner
