A Rational Superego

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10697070
AutoresJ David Velleman (autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen108
Número4
Páginas529
Fecha de publicación1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Philosophical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2998287
OpenAlexW3123677634
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

Just when philosophers of science thought they had buried Freud for the last time, he has quietly reappeared in the writings of moral philosophers. Two analytic ethicists, Samuel Scheffler and John Deigh, have independently applied Freud's theory of the superego to the problem of moral motivation.' Scheffler and Deigh concur in thinking that although Freudian theory doesn't entirely solve the problem, it can nevertheless contribute to a solution. Freud claims that the governance exercised over us by morality is a form of governance that was once exercised by our parents and that was subsequently assumed by a portion of our own personalities. This inner proxy for our parents was established, according to Freud, at the time when we were obliged to give up our oedipal attachment to them. Freud therefore declares that Kant's Categorical Imperative is . . . the direct heir of the Oedipus com

Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Id, ego and super-ego · Psychoanalysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications