Psychoanalysis and Ethics

Abstract

Dr. Feuer develops his thesis clearly and forcefully. Values are authentic which are based on love and arise from the individual's free choice. Such values, called expressive, are opposed to repressive values which have their foundations in anxiety. We can analyze, through the methods of psychoanalysis and general psychology, a particular value or set of values in an individual or in a culture and can determine whether or not the values are expressive or repressive, i.e., authentic or inauthentic.