Ethics and the discovery of the unconscious /

This book shows why the discovery of the unconscious by Nietzsche and Freud requires a reconception of the concepts of moral agency and responsibility and even of morality itself. It explicates how contemporary psychology has taken over the traditional task of ethics in elucidating a theory of human...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Riker, John H., 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Series:SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Psychology.
Moral development.
Social values > Psychological aspects.
Subconsciousness.
Social values.
Ethics
Unconscious, Psychology
Morals
Social Values
Psychology
Morale.
Psychologie.
Développement moral.
Valeurs sociales > Aspect psychologique.
Inconscient.
Valeurs sociales.
ethics (philosophy)
psychology.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Ethics and Psychotherapy
  • 2. The Birth of Ethics
  • 3. The Discovery of the Social Unconscious
  • 4. Freud and the Discovery of the Personal Unconscious
  • 5. The Case Against Ethics
  • 6. Psychological Health
  • 7. Mature Needs and Emotions: A Reconstruction of the Id
  • 8. The Mature Self: A Reconstruction of the Ego and Superego
  • 9. Mature Agency and Social Responsibility
  • 10. Living with the Unconscious.

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