Ideas In Psychoanalysis: Guilt

'Ideas In Psychoanalysis' is a series of essays which explain psychoanalytical concepts, their relevance to everyday life and their ability to illuminate the nature of human society and culture.

Many people experience guilty feelings which cannot be explained in terms of their conscious values. Psychoanalysis suggests that this neurotic form of guilt has its origins in childhood and the ambivalent unconscious feeling the child has towards internal representations of parental figures. Kalu Singh explains the analytic ideas involved, and goes on to illuminate the consequent adult states of mind generated by neurotic guilt and its effect on society and culture.