Includes bibliographical references and index.

Whereas Freud himself viewed conscience as one of the functions of the superego, in The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience, Carveth argues that superego and conscience are distinct mental functions and that, therefore, a fourth mental structure, the conscience, needs to be added to the psychoanalytic structural theory of the mind. He claims that while both conscience and superego originate in the so-called pre-oedipal phase of infant and child development they are comprised of contrasting and often conflicting identifications. The primary object, still most o.

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE The moral ambiguity of psychoanalysis; PART I CLINICAL REALM; CHAPTER TWO On the nature and varieties of guilt; CHAPTER THREE Conscience vs. superego and the bestialising of the id; CHAPTER FOUR Self-punishment as guilt evasion; CHAPTER FIVE Less recognised manifestations of guilt: the old and new hysterias; CHAPTER SIX Harry Guntrip: a fugitive from guilt?; CHAPTER SEVEN Two case studies; PART II CULTURAL REALM; CHAPTER EIGHT Modernity and its discontents; CHAPTER NINE Psychopathy, evil, and the death drive.

CHAPTER TEN Resurrecting "dead" metaphors in psychoanalysis and religionCHAPTER ELEVEN Dead end kids: projective identification and sacrifice in Orphans; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; INDEX.