Abstract

BARRETTA, João Paulo F.. The origin of morality in Freud and Winnicott. Winnicott e-prints [online]. 2012, vol.7, n.1, pp. 114-125. ISSN 1679-432X.

The objective of this workis to explainthe fundamental differences between the psychoanalytic conceptions of Freud and Winnicott on the subject of morality and its psychological origins. It opposes the Freudian conception, developed from the clinic with neurotic adult patients, based on a theory of psychosexual development and advocating the central thesis that moral (as an internal law that runs counter the infantile erotic desires) arises due to the oedipal conflict with the father; to the Winnicottian conception, developed from the clinic of non-neurotic patients (schizoids, individuals with antisocial tendency, among others) both with adults and children, based on a theory of emotional development and advocating the central thesis that moral (as concern) arises from the initial instinctual (aggressive) relations of the baby with his mother

Keywords : moral; oedipal complex; superego; emotional development; concern.

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