Freud Flashcards
Why the human mind create beliefs and images
To satisfy basic longings
Where are beliefs created
In unconscious mind
What’s in unconscious mind
Unwanted thoughts eg guilt shame trauma
We can’t access unconscious
Why we create illusion of god
To help us deal with problems in unconscious mind
What’s a neurosis
Behaviour which has no physical cause and is caused by patients mind
Eg sexual impulse replaced by obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours such as obsessive cleaning
What’s religion seen as
Collective neurosis
Why are neurosis related to religion
Hysterical behaviour
Phobias and anxieties
Obsessive behaviour
What Freud think religion is
Outward expression of inner psychological conflict
Results in neurotic behaviour
So it’s a neurotic illness which affect everyone
What was leader called in a gorilla troop
Alpha male
What were homosapien groups called
Primal hordes
Also had alpha male
What was a benefit of alpha
They had sole access to females
What do the other males that weren’t alpha have to do
They were chased away and had to live outside group
What did other males want to do
Kill the alpha to become the alpha
What does killing the alpha lead to
Guilt rivalry and collapse of social order
What happens to the previous alpha
Buried and a statue made to mark their death placed (totem)
What is done with the totem
It’s worshipped an over time religion is formed
Ritual killing and eating done to upprase father spirit (rids guilt?)
What’s animism
Worshipping of ancestors
How is guilt of killing father (alpha) inherited related to
Christianity
Adam and eve sin passed on to others
What do rituals do
Control objects an living things
When we have sinned what we feel
Guilt and fear
Criticism of primal horde
No anthropological evidence support primal hordes
Sexist theory
Not all societies have totem objects
Entire theory based on Darwin’s SPECUALTION
Not based on scientific evidence
What’s libido
Sex drive
Energy which motivates us to have sex
Very lust driven
Located in unconscious
Who little hans
Boy who had phobia of horses
What are all boys primary object of desire
Their mothers
They want to subconsciously usurp father and become mothers lover
