ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceeding chapters of this book. The enquiry into the meaning of guilt and its significance has been very largely made from the psychological point of view. The depth-psychologist must realize that ethical theory cannot be reduced to a psychology of morals, and ethics and theology have to acknowledge that human behaviour is always within a psychological field. The sense of responsibility is not bom with the rise of the Super-ego. Depth-psychology in its understanding of psychological and moral conflict has revealed to us in the analysis of psychosomatic and mental illness the ways in which it is possible to try and escape from that moral order. The meaning of ethical guilt seems to lie in the fact that we violated the moral order, which naturally includes our relations to others. Man refuses to realize that he belongs to a moral order and he suffers the consequences.
