- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Icon Books Ltd (26 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 184046190X
- ISBN-13: 978-1840461909
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11 x 0.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 549,282 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A sense of guilt is a uniquely human experience, and a major theme in explorations of the human imagination, from Greek tragedy to headline condemnations of murderers and child abusers. A sense of guilt in the real world of moral transgressions would seem to be necessary to hold society together, but many people experience guilty feelings which cannot be explained in terms of their conscious values. Where do these feelings come from? Psychoanalysis suggest that this neurotic form of guilt has its origins in childhood and the ambivalent unconscious feelings the child has towards internal representations of parental figures. In one interpretation, guilt occurs when the child's unconscious sexual, aggressive and destructive feelings conflict with its fear of destroying the source of love and security. The author explains the analytic ideas involved, and goes on to illuminate the consequent adult states of mind generated by neurotic guilt and its effect on society and culture.
About the Author
Kalu Singh came to England from India, and to psychoanalysis via Chemistry, Philosophy, English and Education. He works as a Civil Servant and as a Sessional Counsellor in a University Service. He lives in Cambridge.
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A disappointing read that shows all the flaws of psychoanalytic writers at their worst - in love with his own chain of associations and wordplay, Singh rambles off on an irrelevant, confusing and at times laughable attempt to give us an outline of this all-important concept in analysis when what this book should be is a primer or introductory text. It made me cringe: a mis-hit for this otherwise pretty good series.
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