PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ernest Becker, Terror Management Theory, Sheldon Solomon
11 Sep 2019
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Sheldon solomon, jeff greenberg, and tom pyszczynski. Incorporates evolutionary theory, developmental, psychological disorders, psychological treatments, personality, and social psychology with existential philosophy. Why is there political or religious conflict all over the world. This is because we are human and we attack groups that are not part of our group. The birth and death of meaning, the denial of death, and escape from evil (argues evil is not devil; what happens is that people try to stop evil but they commit evil acts in the doing) Humans are part symbolic, part physical (part animals) Man has a mind that soars out to speculate about atoms and infinity, who can place himself imaginatively at a point in space and contemplate bemusedly his own planet. This immense expansion, this dexterity, this ethereality, this self-consciousness gives to man literally the status of a small god in nature Yet, at the same time man is a worm and food for worms .
