The Quest for Conscience and the Birth of the Mind – Annie Reiner Bestel Nu

This book offers a new perspective on conscience as an as yet unrealized human potential, but a potential toward which human beings are naturally driven. A distinction is made between a “mature” or “healthy” conscience – a “conscience capable of maturation” – and the classical notion of the superego; it also postulates that the two may represent two separate lines of development. Conscience is seen to be inseparable from consciousness; the development of a mature conscience is seen to have its foundation in…