What are the psychological challenges to religion put forward by Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung?
2007-01-18 01:14:06 · 4 answers · asked by SiSi 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jung's the one I know...and actually, he didn't much challenge religion so much as a fundamentalist outlook. He had the notion of the collective unconscious, where we all draw archetypes from--including the archetypes of religion. In a broad sense, he actually supported it, as he clearly saw the power of story and myth, but his ideas would probably be a problem to those who take things literally.
2007-01-18 01:21:34 · answer #1 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a huge admirer of Jung's work with psychology parallel to alchemy ... I see most challanges to religion non-existent
2007-01-18 09:21:39 · answer #2 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
C. G. Jung
2007-01-18 09:53:07 · answer #3 · answered by Eric E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings which a civilized life in common has imposed on them???
2007-01-18 09:24:00 · answer #4 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋