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Freud also treats two other themes, the development of civilization recapitulating individual development, and the personal and social struggle between "Eros" and "Thanatos", life and death urges. [27] Freud expresses deep pessimism about the odds of humanity's reason triumphing over its destructive forces.
Freud adds, however, that, "Illusions need not necessarily be false." (pg.39) He gives the example of a middle-class girl having the illusion that a prince will marry her. While this is unlikely, it is not impossible. The fact that it is grounded in her wishes is what makes it an illusion. Freud explains religion in a similar term to that of ...
Freud's conceptual opposition of death and eros drives in the human psyche was applied by Walter A. Davis in Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative [85] and Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche since 9/11. [86] Davis described social reactions to both Hiroshima and 9/11 from the Freudian viewpoint of the death force.
In Moses and Monotheism, Freud reconstructed biblical history by his general theory. [16] His ideas were also developed in The Future of an Illusion. [17] When Freud spoke of religion as an illusion, he maintained that it "is a fantasy structure from which a man must be set free if he is to grow to maturity."
Kris Komarnitsky, one the first proposers of this theory, says that while most scholars consider the resurrection belief a consequence of grief or bereavement visions, it is possible that the resurrection belief actually preceded and induced the post-mortem visions of Jesus. According to Komarnitsky, the cognitive dissonance reduction and a ...
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History (1959; second edition 1985) is a book by the American classicist Norman O. Brown, in which the author offers a radical analysis and critique of the work of Sigmund Freud, tries to provide a theoretical rationale for a nonrepressive civilization, explores parallels between psychoanalysis and Martin Luther's theology, and draws on ...
The ups and downs of Gary Coleman’s life are being examined in the new documentary, GARY.. Diving deeper into the child actor’s success on Diff’rent Strokes and, ultimately, his titular Gary ...
[4] [5] Freud proposed that Moses had been a priest of Akhenaten who fled Egypt after the pharaoh's death and perpetuated monotheism through a different religion, [6] and that he was murdered by his followers, who then via reaction formation revered him and became irrevocably committed to the monotheistic idea he represented.