A Dark Trace : Sigmund Freud on the Sence of Guilt / / Herman Westerink.

• Author: Westerink, Herman, 1968-
• 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.

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...

Table of Contents

• A Dark Trace; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Carmen and other representations; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 "Our bugles sounding the Retreat"; 1.3 Moral treatment; 1.4 A morally disturbing case; 1.5 Moral character; 1.6 A defensive ego; 1.7 Self-reproach; 1.8 Moral judgments; 1.9 Seduction and self-reproach; 1.10 Stories; 1.11 Assessment; Chapter 2. Dark traces; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Your guilt isn't the same as mine; 2.3 The dead kill; 2.4 "Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all"; 2.5 The dark trace of an old guilt; 2.6 "My 'ought' set before me"; 2.7 Primary and secondary processes
• Chapter 3. Repressed desires 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Formation and utilization of sexuality; 3.3 Weaknesses in the system; 3.4 Attack and defense; 3.5 Dominated by guilt; 3.6 Cultural morality; 3.7 Hostility toward the father; Chapter 4. Applied psychoanalysis; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The choices of Freud's followers; 4.3 A single principle; 4.4 The prohibition behind the imperative; 4.5 Ambivalent feelings; 4.6 Projection; 4.7 Conscience; 4.8 Systems of thought; 4.9 An ancient guilt; Chapter 5. In the depths; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The depth surfaces; 5.3 The downfall of self-reproach
• 5.4 "The youth sees himself as an idol"5.5 Self-regard; 5.6 Feelings of hate; 5.7 When eroticism and sense of guilt go hand in hand; 5.8 The sense of guilt must be set at rest; 5.9 "Becoming is impossible without destruction"; Chapter 6. Analyses of the ego; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 "The Sphinx of ancient legend"; 6.3 "A psychological crowd"; 6.4 Emotional bonds; 6.5 Identification: from Oedipus complex to sense of guilt; 6.6 "The only pre-psychoanalytic thinker"; 6.7 Towards an unconscious sense of guilt; 6.8 The Oedipus complex and the superego; 6.9 Unconscious sense of guilt
• 6.10 The problem of masochism 6.11 Conclusion; Chapter 7. Anxiety and helplessness; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Birth and the feeling of guilt; 7.3 Castration anxiety and the sense of guilt; 7.4 Helpless and dissatisfied; 7.5 Illusion and science; 7.6 Dogma and compulsion; 7.7 Critique; 7.8 The apologetics of a godless Jew; 7.9 Considerations; Chapter 8. Synthesis and a new debate; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 "The man of fate"; 8.3 An instinctual character; 8.4 La sensation religieuse; 8.5 Impossible happiness; 8.6 Hostility to civilization; 8.7 Loving thy neighbour
• 8.8 Schiller and Goethe: The Philosophers 8.9 Struggle; 8.10 Anxiety and the sense of guilt once again; 8.11 Drive renunciation; 8.12 Discontents; 8.13 A new debate; 8.14 Considerations; Chapter 9. Great men; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Moses the Egyptian; 9.3 Akhenaton and monotheism; 9.4 The Kadesh compromise; 9.5 What is a great man?; 9.6 St Paul; 9.7 The sense of guilt and the return of the repressed; 9.8 Assessments; Concluding considerations; Literature; Index