Sometimes a person may feel guilty without knowing why. Psychoanalytic theory credits such guilt to the

a. preconscious workings of the ego.
b. conscious workings of the id.
c. unconscious workings of the superego.
d. postconscious workings of the ideal self.


ANSWER: c

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