Category Archives: Freud

It’s raining Freud and dogs

Just when we’ve finished up the Freud unit in the Nature of Religious Experience course. Headline from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Delusional Suspect in Community-College Stabbing Thought He Had Attacked Missouri Governor. The student who stabbed a community-college dean … Continue reading

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Is Psychiatry A Form Of Religion?

From MindHacks.com: The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine just published a recent, and, presumably, slightly tongue in cheek article, drawing parallels between psychiatry, clinical psychology and traditional religious practices.

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Reducing reductionism

What’s up with reductionism? While reviewing the chapter on Marx in Pals it hit me: it seems to me that few would have any problems with a doctor analyzing your symptoms and finding that the root of the problem is … Continue reading

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Mean, nasty, brutal society

Freud 2: A look at Chapters 1 and 2. Freud states that human nature is inherently destructive, andti-social, and anti-cultural. This puts us at odds with having a harmonius civilization. Instinct is controlled by coercion. We’re lazy and have passions … Continue reading

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Freud revisited

Freud 1 What I appreciate about The Future of an Illusion [FOI] is that it is short enough to read and straightforward enough to grasp. I have read the text just about each time I have offered the course, so … Continue reading

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