THEO 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Existential Crisis, Spurn
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One of freud"s most prized students and friends. But sees the human condition differently falling out with freud i. ii: jung has existential crisis yielded great creativity. Basement, place of repressed, sexual, and aggressive drives. To release drives in a disgusting way. Do not need to confront our nature. Storehouse of archetypes or sides of the personality waiting to be realized. Sees the unconscious as revealing of the psyche roadmap for healthy individual growth and development. Stories keep getting told because they resonate with unconscious archetypes. Religious stories have power to bring out these archetypes. Positive - map for individual development: the relationship between modernity and religion i. Fundamentalists: pits religion against modernity and opts for religion, denies modernity ii. Rationalists: pits religion against modernity but there can be no modern religion, opts for modernity over religion, modernity is coexistent with science science dooms religion, reject religion for science iii.
