This insightful and innovative book sheds light on the complexity of the concept of guilt, while exploring aspects of guilt that have previously been overlooked in psychoanalytic theory and discourse.

Donald L. Carveth is an emeritus professor of sociology and social and political thought and a senior scholar at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a past director of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis and a past editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse. He is the author of Psychoanalytic Thinking (2018) and The Still Small Voice (2013).

Preface 1. Guilt 2. Conscience 3. Guilt evasion in the self, society, and psychoanalysis 4. Conscience vs. superego 5. Two case vignettes 6. Recent contributions to the theory of the superego, guilt and conscience 7. Why I write about guilt