Psychology of GUILT=
Guilt is the state of being responsible for the commission of an offense.It is also a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes—accurately or not—that he or she has violated a moral standard, and bears significant responsibility for that violation. It is closely related to the concept of remorse.
Both in specialised and in ordinary language, guilt is an affective state in which one experiences conflict at having done something that one believes one should not have done (or conversely, having not done something one believes one should have done). It gives rise to a feeling which does not go away easily, driven by 'conscience'.
Sigmund Freud described this as the result of a struggle between the ego and the superego parental imprinting. Freud rejected the role of God as punisher in times of illness or rewarder in time of wellness. While removing one source of guilt from patients, he described another. This was the unconscious force within the individual that contributed to illness. Freud came to consider 'the obstacle of an unconscious sense of guilt...as the most powerful of all obstacles to recovery'
Alice Miller claims that 'many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations....stronger than any intellectual insight, no argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest period, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy'.
This may be linked to what has been called 'the disease of false guilt....At the root of false guilt is the idea that what you feel must be true', if you feel guilty, you must be guilty!
Guilt is the state of being responsible for the commission of an offense.It is also a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes—accurately or not—that he or she has violated a moral standard, and bears significant responsibility for that violation. It is closely related to the concept of remorse.
Both in specialised and in ordinary language, guilt is an affective state in which one experiences conflict at having done something that one believes one should not have done (or conversely, having not done something one believes one should have done). It gives rise to a feeling which does not go away easily, driven by 'conscience'.
Sigmund Freud described this as the result of a struggle between the ego and the superego parental imprinting. Freud rejected the role of God as punisher in times of illness or rewarder in time of wellness. While removing one source of guilt from patients, he described another. This was the unconscious force within the individual that contributed to illness. Freud came to consider 'the obstacle of an unconscious sense of guilt...as the most powerful of all obstacles to recovery'
Alice Miller claims that 'many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations....stronger than any intellectual insight, no argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest period, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy'.
This may be linked to what has been called 'the disease of false guilt....At the root of false guilt is the idea that what you feel must be true', if you feel guilty, you must be guilty!
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