Challenges To Religious Beliefs Flashcards

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Who created “religion as a product of the human mind”?

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-Freud

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What is the “ID”?

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  • the primitive and impulsive part
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What is the “Superego”?

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-Moral part of personality which includes conscience

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What is the “Ego”?

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  • the decision making part of the psych
  • reconciles the id and superego
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What was Freud’s view on religion?

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  • he compared religious behaviour with obsessional neurosis (repetitive compulsive behaviours)
  • if repetitive behaviour isn’t fulfilled, they feel unease e.g the rosary, mass, confession etc
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Religion as a universal obsessional neurosis

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  • Freud sees religious rituals as ON e.g. like no sex before marriage. If they’ve committed this sin, then they develop guilt which leads to prayer for forgiveness - becomes a compulsion.
    -lack of purpose can be displaced into prayer - becomes a compulsion
  • religious people are part of a universal neurosis, they share the compulsion and replace their guilt of sexual repression
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Where does obsessional neurosis come from?

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  • repressed instinctual impulses
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Support for Freud: wolf man

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  • the wolf man suffered from depression and went to therapy
  • Freud focussed on a dream the wolf man had as a child
  • the wolf man saw 6 or 7 wolves and by being scared of being eaten, he woke up
  • Freud interpreted this as a repressed trauma of the wolf man witnessing his parents having sex
  • therefore making it easier to treat the depression having identified the the repressed trauma
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Support for Freud: Little hans

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  • ## Han’s has a phobia of being bitten by a horse and has tried to avoid horse
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