Dissecting the Superego

Dissecting the Superego: Moralities Under the Psychoanalytic Microscope offers a comprehensive overview of how the superego, the workings of our moral faculties, may be understood and clinically utilised in contemporary practice. Drawing on the latest psychoanalytic thinking – as well as neurobiological, psychological and ethical perspectives - this book reinstates the superego as a central concept, and gives a clear guide to its importance in the modern world. In addition to the theoretical bac