![]() ![]() And as this desired interaction does not always come easily, we can naturally see the point of introducing psychoanalysis to our lives. By contrast, I shall develop and defend an anti-rationalist view, to the effect that an inherently irrational superego is no threat to morality’s place in human life, as long as it’s capable of making us experience an integrated form of life. The Savages Dread Of Incest PRIMITIVE man is known to us by the stages of development through which he has passed: that. ![]() ![]() This text describes a certain type of transference. I argue that both the deflationist and the rationalist view are untenable, as they fail to distinguish among different senses of irrationality that we can attribute to morality. Sigmund Freuds book, Totem and Taboo, speaks about the origin of language as Pierre Kaufmann reads it. In this paper I shall consider three views on Freud’s moral psychology, which I call the “deflationist”, the “rationalist”, and the “anti-rationalist” view. London: Hogarth Press.ĭeflationism, Rationalism, and Anti-Rationalism: Three Views of Superego Moralityįreud, Klein, Moral Psychology, Psychoanalysis, the SuperegoĪBSTRACT: Philosophers of psychoanalysis have for years been debating over Freud’s criticism of morality as a sheer product of irrationality originated in our superego development. (Trans.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIII. ![]()
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