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KMID : 0385320050160010003
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2005 Volume.16 No. 1 p.3 ~ p.7
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Superego and Mental Health in the Confucianism
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Hwang Ik-Keun
Kim Ki-Hyun
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Abstract
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Confucianism has been defined as moral humanism that seeks the human specific properties in morality and shows the way to achieve it. In this sense, the great Confucian scholars have been sincere and serious in their goals. We have reviewed how the practicians of Confucianism have to overcome the pressure from superego demands and accompanying psychic conflict. As a result, it has been assumed that the superego of Confucian practicians may have a strong relationship with their self culture or mental training and aesthetic emotion. Confucian practicians tried to maintain a state of mental peace in their lives. They wanted to keep their minds as a kind of clean and transparent mirror. They also resolved their anxieties and tensions from superego demands by keeping the aesthetic consciousness, accepting natural happenings as they were and extending mental freedom through a sense of unity with nature itself. These findings suggests that the self culture and aesthetic acceptance of Confucianism can play a crucial role in psychotherapy.
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KEYWORD
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Confucianism, Superego
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