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Freud and religion
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Challenges to religious beliefFreud also believed that the human mind contained unconscious material which the person
was not of aware of freed believed the unconscious mind is universal and therefore
everyone's unconscious mind works in the two same ways through repressed feelings on
powerful desires.
Freud believed the unconscious mind holds repressed feelings ideas and memories such as
traumatic events
he also believed the unconscious mind holds innate powerful desires hidden but always
there.
Floyd believed that to reach maturity unpsychological health, The person needs to face the
content of the unconscious mind, sign that person had come into contact with the content
of the unconscious mind was that they had religious belief therefore Freud argued not
religious belief as a result of the unconscious mind and a sign of weakness due to a lack of
mental maturity.
freed believed that religious belief meant that religion was either an illusion or a neurosis.
religion as an illusion
food suggested there are two reasons why religion is an illusion
the odipus complex
Flight believed that's one of the repressed feelings in the conscious mind needs to the
illusion that God is real was that the male Childs unconscious desire to kill his father. It is
these feelings that get repressed into our unconscious mind because the child cannot cope
with these hateful feelings.
delete augie's that believe in God arises when we get projections of the odipus complex
from our own conscious mind in later life. however we confuse these feelings and flashbacks
with a good type figure which is why God is only seen as a male figure powerful and strong
and is to be feared.
therefore according to Freud Believe in God is an illusion because they are no more than
projections from repressed childhood memories so an illustration that a person has
successfully dealt With these repressed memories is that the no longer believe in God.
the primal hordes
this is the second explanation of why religion is an illusion. he claimed there was a historical
reason for believing God but these too are an illusion. in his book totem and taboo Freud
argued that primitive humans lived in hordes dominated by a powerful male who held claim
over all the tribes women.
Free argued all the other males were driven by hate and jealousy killed the powerful male
however then became overwhelmed with guilt put a totem symbol in the place off the
powerful male. this process transferring extreme guilt onto a totem is called animism..
Therefore for Freud This is the origin of the illusion of God as like the totem they express our
psychological need for a symbolic male in our lives.
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