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Freud & Feuerbach: the role of religion - The Digital Dialogue - 2 views

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Freud religion happiness

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  • "The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.  It is more humiliating to discover how larger a number of people living to-day, who cannot but see that this religion is not tenable, nevertheless try to defend it piece by piece in a series of pitiful rearguard actions..." (Freud, 22)
  • The only reason that we hold onto this make-believe fantasy is because it offers us a sense of happiness.
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 01 Sep 10
       
      How does Freud understand the meaning of happiness? (p. 25)? -- two senses of happiness Religion as "mass delusion" (32)
  • Chris Long on 01 Sep 10
     
    "The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.  It is more humiliating to discover how larger a number of people living to-day, who cannot but see that this religion is not tenable, nevertheless try to defend it piece by piece in a series of pitiful rearguard actions..." (Freud, 22).
Chris Long

Poetically, Man Dwells - The Digital Dialogue - 0 views

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Freud religion poetry Aesthetics

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  • I want to seize upon this "oceanic feeling" that Freud rejects as a cause of religious sentiment and investigate its significance further. In fact, it seems to me that the inspiration for all poetry might very well have its source in this feeling
  • Wallace Stevens blurs the distinction between emotions, the inner world, and the environment, the outer world
  • That was not ours although we understood,
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    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 01 Sep 10
       
      Perhaps we can discuss this post with that of Joe Balay Freud on Beauty.
  • Art is a form of communication, one which enables greater understanding among people
    • Chris Long
      Chris Long on 01 Sep 10
       
      Let's investigate the Death instinct and Eros, p. 77, 80ff.
  • And so, the distinction between the destructive impulse and Eros could perhaps be more accurately characterized as a distinction between the destructive impulse and the creative impulse.
  • Chris Long on 01 Sep 10
     
    I want to seize upon this "oceanic feeling" that Freud rejects as a cause of religious sentiment and investigate its significance further. In fact, it seems to me that the inspiration for all poetry might very well have its source in this feeling.
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