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OCLC number
68814205
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Author
Timms, Howard Grant,1955-
Title
On the production of guilt. Science, mythology, religion :a critique of psychoanalysis' origins of guilt and an inquiry into its social production.
Degree
M.A. -- Trent University, 2004
Publisher
Ottawa :Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothè€que et Archives Canada,[2005]
Description
2 microfiches.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
The thesis is a study of the history and evolution of the social production of guilt. The work relies mainly on the writings of Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari to offer a critique of Freud and classical psychoanalysis, comparing the underlying conceptual assumptions of psychoanalysis with those found in Judeo-Christian theology or 'biblical religion'. The thesis attempts to construct a genealogy of social coding and mnemotechnics to form an analysis of the mechanisms whereby the concepts of obligation, debt and the 'sense of guilt' condition regimes of social production. The thesis adopts the position that guilt, as conceived by classical psychoanalysis, is neither ontologically innate nor a phylogenetic necessity, but is a re-configuration of foundational positions of Judeo-Christian and western metaphysics predicated on the concepts deprivation, lack, or an absence of being conceived as the fundamental condition of the immanent world, organic life, and human ontology.
ISBN
0494003723
9780494003725
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