God Is An Illusion And The Result Of Wish Fufillment Flashcards
Is God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment
Two views against religion
Richard Dawkins and Sigmund Frued
How does Frued see religion ?
Religion as infantile (childish)
What did Frued believe that society needs to do in terms of religion ?
Needs to grow up and develop rationally and abolish religion
Is God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
What did Frued think in the early stages of development of the mind when we are young , what do we develop
We develop psychosexually
Is God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
What did Frued think in the early stages of development of the mind when we are young , what do we develop
We develop psychosexually
s God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
What is psychosexually ?
Our basic drive that fixate first on the oral, then anal and then the phallic up to the age of five
s God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
What can explain why people are stuck in the stage of psycholosexually ?
Neuroses
s God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
What idea did Frued develop
Oedipus complex
s God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
What is opeduis complex
Child has an unconscious desire for the parent of the opposite sex and hatred for the parent of the same sex and guilt of this leads to a neurosis
s God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
Frued says we mean we are stuck in infantile stage we are more in tune with guilt , so what is the ways people deal with guilt ?
So they create rituals to feel better so men who hate their father create ways to beg for forgiveness from their father seen in tribes
God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
As religion develop from these tribes what do they do
Rituals to beg forgiveness from ultimate father figure by confession practise
s God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
Why is religion an illusion to Frued ?
Desire of people to gain forgiveness for feelings they had repressed
s God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
What did Frued call religion ?
Universal obsessional neurosis
s God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
Why did Frued reject truth of religion ?
Immoral actions have been justified by religion
s God an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment : Frued religion as infantile
What did Frued believe religion was ?
The unconscious mind need for wish fulfilment as people use religion to mine away from repressed guilt
