THEO 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neurosis, Psychoanalysis, Teddy Bear
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Freud - early psychology: key terms, psychoanalysis i. Storehouse of suppressed memories, images, and urges too painful to disclose : religion i. ii. iii. Religion is also illusion religion = illusion: historical recollections i. ii. iii. Combination with neurosis and what society tells us is right: future of an illusion (1927, how the theory works: i. ii. iii. iv. v. Natural world is scary and dangerous disasters, disease, death. Humans prefer the certitude of childhood with parent figure assuring us. As adults, people still crave/wish for a parental figure (realize your parents are just as helpless as you/don"t provide same certitude but we still want it) Humans create the illusion of parental figure through the instrument of religion. Freud seeks to liberate from this childhood state. Men cannot remain children forever; they mustgo out into hostile life" . Come out of the shadows and face the real world iv. v.
