Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Phil HL - Freud - neurosis
- For
- people often convert because of trauma
- Against
- depends on a narow selection
of evidence (only male deities)
- Malinowski: in the animal role
nothing causes the complex,
mother & father cause the complex
- psychoanalytic perspective
- What is it about?
- we long for a father figure
- for protection from feelings of fear about life
- God fulfills this role as an adult.
- Morality from God
fulfills demand for
justice
- religion is for emotional support
- a neurosis (allows mind
to be child like)
- stems from
unconscious mind -
repressed sexual
memories
- libido: the bodily urge
that is capable of causing
psychological damage
- religion allows libido to
redirect into music &
arts
- Primal Crime
- guilt from primal sin is inherent
- young members of horde killed alpha male from jealousy of his status
- worships totem in his place as it reduces
guilt (God has become the totem)