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Ethics and the discovery of the unconscious
- Title
- Ethics and the discovery of the unconscious / John Hanwell Riker.
- Author
- Riker, John H., 1943-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- x, 254 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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 well-being, but criticizes this psychology for being unable to generate adequate notions of either reponsibility or moral agency. Riker develops a new moral psychology in which the reality of unconscious functioning is included within a theory of responsibility, and the agent's primary ethic concern becomes knowing what her unconscious motivations are and integrating them into a morally and psychologically mature self.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
- Subject
- Ethics
- Psychology
- Moral development
- Social values > Psychological aspects
- Subconsciousness
- Social values
- Ethics
- Unconscious, Psychology
- Morals
- Social Values
- Psychology
- ethics (philosophy)
- psychology
- unconscious
- Subconsciousness
- Social values
- Moral development
- Social values > Psychological aspects
- Psychologie
- Ethik
- Unbewusstes
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0791434257
- 9780791434253
- 0791434265
- 9780791434260
- 0585057672
- 9780585057675
- LCCN
- 96041498
- OCLC
- ocm35559085
- 35559085
- SCSB-101657
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library