On ideas of 'the good' and 'the ideal' In george eliots' novels and post- Kleinian psychoanalytic thought

摘要

The conflation of the "good" with the "Ideal" has long muddied the waters of inquiry where matters of morality and ethics are concerned. This paper sets out to draw a distinction between the role of an abstract notion of the Good-in-itself-in speculative terms dangerously close to the "Ideal"- and the seeking after a good that is attainable, and in relation to which people may usefully live their lives.