PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Paul Broca, Luigi Galvani, James Mill
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Lecture 1: there is no soul in psychology. We are spirits living in a material world . Animism is when everything is given a soul. In the olden days, they would say that everything had a soul and would always want to be with it. For example when they did not know about gravity, things would drop on the ground and they would say that whatever falls would want to go back to the earth, where it is made from. Earth things want to go back to the earth. At a young age, he had several mental breakdowns. He was told that he worked too hard and had to rest. He thought that a statue had come to life when really he stepped on a stone which caused the statue to move. He thought that animals had no souls like statues. Open them up and see what they had while they are still alive.