A Dark Trace Sigmund Freud on the Sence 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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Main Author: Westerink, Herman, 1968- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leuven Leuven University Press 2021
Leuven : 2009.
Series:Figures of the unconscious ; 8.
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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
Item Description:Translated from the Dutch.
Physical Description:1 online resource (332 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-313) and index.
ISBN:9789461660367