case of remorse

case of remorse

Hello I want someone to write a psychology essay analyzing the Freud theory of guilt text ( It is attached). it should be about 3-4 pages. 1.5 spacing

But if the human sense of guilt goes back to the killing of the primal father, that was after all a case of ‘remorse’. Are we to assume that a conscience and a sense of guilt were not, as we have presupposed, in existence before the deed? If not, where, in this case, did the remorse come from? There is no doubt that this case should explain the secret of the sense of guilt to us and put an end to our diFculties. And I believe it does. This remorse was the result of the primordial ambivalence of feeling towards the father. His sons hated him, but they loved him, too. After their hatred had been satis±ed by their act of aggression, their love came to the fore in their remorse for the deed. It set up the superego by identi±cation with the father; it gave that agency the father’s power, as though as a punishment for the deed of aggression they had carried out against him, and it created the restrictions which were intended to prevent a repetition of the deed. And since the inclination to aggressiveness against the father was repeated in the following generations, the sense of guilt, too, persisted, and it was reinforced once more by every piece of aggressiveness that was suppressed and carried over to the super-ego. Now, I think, we can at last grasp two things perfectly clearly: the part played by love in the origin of conscience and the fatal inevitability of the sense of guilt. Whether one has killed one’s father or has abstained from doing so is not really the decisive thing. One is bound to feel guilty in either case, for the sense of guilt is an expression of the con²ict due to ambivalence, of the eternal struggle between Eros and the instinct of destruction or death. This con²ict is set going as soon as men are faced with the task of living together. So long as the community assumes no other form than that of the family, the con²ict is bound to express itself in the Oedipus complex, to establish the conscience and to create the ±rst sense of guilt. When an attempt is made to widen the community, the same
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