Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Psycology of Religion
- Freud
- Religion is a neurosis which
stems from deep
psychological trauma
- Stems from trauma's thats are from a sexual root
- religion is therefore an illusionresulting from sexual difficulties
- Religion is a collective
Neurosis which stemsfrom the
unconcious mind
- The minds sollution is to lock
trauma's away in the unconcious
- Later emerges as religion
- Religion creates compulsive behaviour
- Animinism
- When suffering from extreme gulit the mind creaes idols (totems)
- Mind redirects guilt through
sacrifice and compulsive
behaviour
- Through sacrifces and prayer
- The mind can now control
these feelings of gulit
- creation of these idols then results into a
religion
- The mind can now control these feelings of guilt
as it comes to terms of trauma druing sexual
development
- Jung
- Rejects that religion is caused by inner sexual trauma
- Also rejects that religion is a
a dangerous entity to be
exposed and overthrown
- Religion is an expression of the collective unconcious
- A natural process
- Stems from archetypes within the unconcious mind
- perfroms its function of
harmonising the psyche
- God is an archetype
- Each born with tendencies
create religious imagery
- i.e. God's angels and other religious
phenomena
- No physical proof of if God
does/doesn't exist