A dark trace Sigmund Freud on the sense of guilt
Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of ""reading a dark trace"", thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The sense of guilt is indeed a trace that leads deep into t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leuven
Leuven University Press
[2009]©2009, 2009
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| Series: | Figures of the unconscious
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of ""reading a dark trace"", thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The sense of guilt is indeed a trace that leads deep into the individual's mental life, into his childhood life, and into the prehistory of culture and religion. In this book this trace is followed and thus Freud's thought on the sense of guilt as a central issue in his work is analyzed, from the earliest studies on the moral and ""guilty"" characters of the hysterics, via the |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (xii, 319 pages |
| ISBN: | 9789058677549 9058677540 |