REL-1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernity, Selfishness
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Jews advance psychology: achieving an integrated personality, hierarchy of needs, peak experience, unconscious mind. Crowd psychology: analyzing a problem faced by jews: scapegoated as an alien and disturbing minority, jews has a self interest in understanding the dynamics of crown psych. Scapegoaing: the psychology of projecion: jews have been paricularly vulnerable to this, scapegoated for problems related to their culture, analysis = projecion of things you are afraid of onto other people. Jews address problems as they face as individuals: anxiety, fear, guilt, high expectaions, inferiority. Family psychology: emancipated jews take the lead: sigmund freud (1856-1939) Analyzing the infanile neuroses, theorist of the unconscious: alfred adler (1870-1930) Humanisic psychology: maslow: hierarchy of needs. If you have all of the essenials to life, you can learn to manage your emoional impulses. Physiological safety emoional esteem self- actualizaion. American bestseller: joshua liebman"s peace of mind (1946: merging religion with psychiatry. Criique of irraional guilt: catholic reacion.
