This article, companion to my article, "Augustine's Confessions: The Story of a Divided Self and the Process of Its Unification" (Capps, 2007), focuses on psychoanalytic studies of Augustine's Confessions, giving particular attention to his tendency to engage in self-reproach. The psychodynamic meanings of such self-reproach are explored, and the proposal is made that his Confessions reveal both narcissistic personality trends (in which shame plays a major role) and a melancholy self (in which the mother-son relationship is central). © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007.
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Capps, D. (2007). Augustine’s Confessions: Self-reproach and the melancholy self. Pastoral Psychology, 55(5), 571–591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-007-0075-0
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