A reaction paper to freud's book "Future of an Illusion"
Date Submitted: 07/26/2004 16:37:23
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 3 pages (881 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 3 pages (881 words)
Freud and Religion
From the beginning of human kind's existence in this universe, religion has always been an important concept of life for every civilization. In his book "Future of an Illusion", Sigmund Freud critiques religion psychoanalytically and comes to a conclusion where he thinks religion is an illusion. As an atheist, he mainly argues that mankind will be better off when they stop their meaningless belief in religions. This paper is going to discuss …
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…other than religious regimes and people are still dissatisfied with the way they are living. Even in the communist countries that support Marxist ideas, by which Freud is influenced in many aspects, people are not satisfied or happy because of the restrictions on them. In short we can say that Freud is in contradiction with himself at this point.
Finally, the most important concept that Freud is using to critique religion is its enemy; science.
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