The Origins of Ethics: Deontic Modality

被引:6
作者
Litowitz, Bonnie E. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Rush Med Sch, Chicago Inst Psychoanal, 180 North Michigan Ave,Suite 2220, Chicago, IL 60601 USA
[2] Rush Med Sch, Dept Psychiat, Chicago, IL 60601 USA
[3] Journal Amer Psychoanalyt Assoc, Chicago, IL 60601 USA
关键词
deontic modality; ethics; infancy; psychoanalysis;
D O I
10.1002/aps.10
中图分类号
B84-0 [心理学理论];
学科分类号
040201 ;
摘要
Most psychoanalytic writers have followed developmental psychologists such as Piaget and Kohlberg in viewing the acquisition of morality as requiring language skills and, consequently, originating after infancy. Even psychoanalytic theorists who emphasize the mother-infant dyad (such as Winnicott) and those whose focus is the therapeutic relationship (for example, Mitchell, Aron) hypothesize infancy as but a preparatory phase. By contrast, I claim that ethics originates in the deontic (versus epistemic) features of adult-infant communications. Specifically, the desiderative and instrumental functions of adult-infant messages (Laplanche) establish the rights and obligations of relationships. The early origins of ethics suggest why confusions and uncertainties are inevitable in adult relationships, accompanied more often by feelings of shame than guilt. Copyright (C) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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页码:249 / 259
页数:11
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