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It is possible that the study of literature affects the conscience, the morality, the sensitivity to some code of `` right '' and `` wrong ''.

I do not know that this is true ; ;

both Flugel and Ranyard West deal with the development and nature of conscience, as do such theologians as Niebuhr and Buber.

It forms the core of many, perhaps most, problems of psychotherapy.

I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.