This paper presents the proposition of a new conception of the superego in which the superego’s imperatives would be comparable, in every individual, to a “psychotic enclave”.
That’s a matter of deepening some fundamental features of the issue of the superego, trying to work out some points left unresolved in Freud, Melanie Klein and other postfreudian authors.
The work of Jean Laplanche was useful as a main source in the formulation of the hypotheses that are presented, whose incidence in the psychoanalytical clinic seems undeniable.
Superego; “untranslatable”; culpability; ideals