A Dark Trace : Sigmund Freud on the Sence of Guilt / / Herman Westerink.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Leuven : : Leuven University Press,, 2009. ©2009. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Figures of the unconscious ;
8. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
| Notes: | Translated from the Dutch. |
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| Other title: | Schuldgevoel bij Freud. |
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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 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-313) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9461660367 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Herman Westerink. |