Only in the second and third parts of my article will I come to conscience and its relation to the superego. Although I want to defend conscience against being absorbed into the superego, I think at the same time that there is such a thing as the superego, so I begin the work with an attempt to characterize the superego. My article is phenomenological also in the sense that I do not primarily offer a critical study of Freud, but I attempt instead to clarify "the things themselves" that are at issue in these well-known Freudian claims. I want to show why we have to let the superego be the superego and let conscience be conscience and must never reduce the one to the other. I call my paper a phenomenological study, because it belongs to the genius of phenomenology to resist all forms of reductionism, and to let each thing be itself. I want to argue that one can never hope to understand the deep personalist meaning of conscience ifone reduces it to the superego, Logos 1:4 1998 Conscience and Superego and that a truly personalist philosophy as well as a personalist psychology have to distinguish between superego and conscience as fundamentally different things. Indeed, Freud himself thought this, or more exactly he thought that conscience is one of several functions of the superego. It is widely thought by psychologists and philosophers that conscience is nothing more than what Sigmund Freud called the superego. We need not waste many words on the relevance of the topic of conscience to the tasks of a personalist psychology. We show respect for others as persons by abstaining from any coercion in all that concerns their own judgments of conscience. We violate ourselves as persons when we compromise ourselves in some matter of conscience. We enter into the inner sanctuary of our personhood when we work through some question of conscience. It is widely understood that when some question affects us strongly in our conscience, we quicken as persons. Crosby Conscience and Superego: A Phenomenological Analysis of Their Difference and Relation A PERSONALIST PSYCHOLOGY IS BOUND TO be particularly concerned with doing justice to conscience.
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