SOSC 2340 Lecture 18: freud outline to print

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2340
• Professor: Mark Peacock

Document Summary

The psychoanalytic social theory is about how emotions can affect the social actions of people. These emotions are about the unconscious and how it influences individuals or groups when they are unaware of it. The psychoanalytic theory revolves around two stages; sexual and death instinct. The sexual instinct is about survival, pleasure and reproduction, whereas the death instinct is about aggression, guilt that results in self-harm. Freud develops the social theory within psychoanalysis in three central texts; future of an illusion, civilization and its discontents and moses and monotheism. In future of illusion, freud expresses that people believe in religion because of their ancestors and the myths and stories that were past down through generations which turned into facts. In his work, he explains that religion comes from a need for the human mind to grasp the reality of nature. These natural forces become powerful gods who which humans must offer a sacrifice.