Insight and Responsibility: Lectures on the Ethical Implications of Psychoanalytical Insight [Paperback]

Erik H. Erikson (Author)

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Publication Date: November 1, 1972

In the six essays contained in this text the author reflects on the ethical implications of psychoanalytical insight. Among the topics covered are: Freud's discovery that the human mind can only be studied through a partnership between observer and observed; how clinical evidence is made up of a unique mixture of subjective and objective; an observation on the way issues of identity affect not only individuals but classes of people; and an examination of the links between ego formation and institutions and traditions. Erikson also discusses the origins of ethics and looks at psychiatry as the pragmatic Western version of the universal journey to self-awareness.

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• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (November 1, 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393312143
• ISBN-13: 978-0393312140
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #556,758 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Erik Erikson's Insight and Responsibility is a must, even though it can be dense. Erikson, as a philosophical social psychologist and psychoanalyst is one of the first to mix psychology and anthropology with the meaning of social existence and survival. Childhood and Society is even more important and easier for the reader and has a larger scope but still here we have the equivalent of : IF IN FACT WE HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF INSIGHT AS A SPECIES DO WE HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF GETTING BEYOND OUR TENDENCY TO HAVE MORALIZING IGNORE OUR LIMITATIONS AND OUR CAPACITIES? It is as relevant now, if not more than ever...