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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index.
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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.
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