The superego is one of those psychoanalytic concepts that has been assimilated into ordinary language, like repression, the unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Because it has become such a familiar notion, its complexity may not always be appreciated, nor the controversy that it can inspire. Its origins, for example, its timing in the course of
Beginning with an account of how Freud elaborated the idea of an agency within a person's mind which monitors and passes judgement on the person, this work describes the evolution of the superego from infancy to adulthood. It also considers different views of this development and its chronology.
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
Jul 2019
ISBN
9780367329969
Pages
192 p.
Item Type
Book
Format
Hardcover
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