PSYCH218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Symbolic, Putrefaction, Blood Transfusion

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH218
• Professor: Chris Burris

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Includes various types of physical harm people put on to one another, or social disorder (unpredictable, chaotic: ex. Covert: prevention of internal chaos: sense of natural order/law symbolic world, preserving it, ethic of divinity, ex. Death penalty: strong link to empowering symbolic order. If so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake se(cid:374)se its probably symbolic. How we deal with dead bodies: you cant just do anything to a body have to treat it a certain way (differently) If (cid:455)ou"re lu(cid:272)k(cid:455), (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e sa(cid:272)red propert(cid:455) that"s (cid:455)our right: laws against improper uses of a course, body is being treated in a symbolic way identity markers. Issues of the intersection of death and law. Laws are not random they emerge out of psych principles (cid:862)before(cid:863) Legal related issues prior to death they involve projecting into the future. What we think should/will happen to us as individuals when we are dying/dead.