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Norrie, Alan W. (2023) Crime and the metaphysical animal. Journal of Critical Realism, 22 (5). pp. 904-921. doi:10.1080/14767430.2023.2265689 ISSN 1572-5138.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2023.2265689
Abstract
This essay considers how we talk in moral terms about crime and punishment using a framework that comes from psychoanalysis. The idea of the human as a metaphysical animal, an animal that thinks and loves, is given a naturalistic explanation in Freudian metapsychology as it was developed by Melanie Klein and Hans Loewald. While the former helps us understand the desire to punish as the enjoyable return of pain for pain, the latter indicates how mature human beings seek to pursue a sense of wholeness. This understanding of moral psychology is applied to thinking about criminal justice where three ethical stances are identified, the vindictive, the vindicative and the validatory. The vindictive and the vindicative represent a compromise formation in law which excludes a broader validatory process aimed at truthful human reconciliation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Criminology -- Philosophy, Criminal justice, Administration of -- Philosophy, Crime -- Philosophy | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Critical Realism | ||||||
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group | ||||||
ISSN: | 1572-5138 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 22 | ||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 904-921 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/14767430.2023.2265689 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 November 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 November 2023 |
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