THE SUPEREGO first came to my attention when I did not know what to call it. The occasion was a relatively harmless instance: an Army officer and his wife, who were by virtue of their military status dispensed from Friday abstinence, told me how it had taken them almost a year to be able to eat meat on Friday without feeling somewhat guilty about this —in spite of their dispensation. But anothe...

OBJECTIVES To compare moral development and psychopathological interference with conscience functioning (PI) among adolescents exposed to different degrees of earthquake-related trauma and to investigate the relationship of moral development and PI to exposure to trauma, severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, postearthquake adversities, and extent of loss of nuclear family m...

Introduction With the first glance on an object, the human observer is able to say if its sight is pleasant for him or not. He makes then neither more nor less than one classification of the perception of this object according to the feeling gotten and felt in two categories: ”I like” or ”I don’t like”. Such an aptitude to classify the visual feelings is indisputably to put in relation with the...

Abstract This article explores the aetiology and psychogenesis of Macbeth’s tyrannical ambitions growth his psychic degradation. Macbeth deigns to be an incorrigible regicide, but ambition is ultimately overpowered by conscience. aporetic conflict fatal morality sense Self. Character analysis informed psychoanalytic criticism will investigate protagonist’s tormented psyche in its struggle betwe...