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Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction

Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Death & DyingGeneral Psychology

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ISBN10: 1032389303
ISBN13: 9781032389301
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 26 2023
Pages: 80
Language: English

This insightful and innovative book sheds light on the complexity of the concept of guilt, while exploring aspects of guilt that have previously been overlooked in psychoanalytic theory and discourse.

Offering original insights on the topic, Donald Carveth looks at Freud's failure to distinguish persecutory guilt from reparative guilt, and the superego from the conscience. The significance of these distinctions for both psychosocial theory and clinical practice is explored throughout the volume. Carveth distinguishes varieties of punitive guilt, such as justified, unjustified, borrowed or induced, existential and collective. He expertly describes patterns of self-punishment and self-sabotage, while also addressing the widespread use of persecutory guilt and self-punishment as a defence against and evasion of reparative guilt, contrition, and reparation. Throughout the volume, Carveth critically reviews a range of recent contributions to psychoanalytic literature to support his theories.

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