Challenges To Religious Beliefs Flashcards
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Who created “religion as a product of the human mind”?
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-Freud
2
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What is the “ID”?
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- the primitive and impulsive part
3
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What is the “Superego”?
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-Moral part of personality which includes conscience
4
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What is the “Ego”?
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- the decision making part of the psych
- reconciles the id and superego
5
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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
7
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Where does obsessional neurosis come from?
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- repressed instinctual impulses
8
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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
9
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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