Freud’s Theory vs. Levi’s Experiences

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May 17, 2014

 

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In which Freud attacks organized religion as a collective neurosis. Religion has performed a great service for civilization by taming asocial instincts and creating a sense of community around a shared set of beliefs, Freud argues. But it has also demanded an enormous psychological cost to the individual by making him permanently subordinate to the primal father figure embodied by God...
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An acknowledged atheist, Freud refines his theories in “Civilization and Its Discontents” to outline more emphatically the relation between psychoanalysis and religion, as well as between the individual and civilization. Freud explains his ideas of Aggression, Individual and Civilization, Eros and Death Drive, and the Conscience and the Super ego through the depiction of Primo Levi’s experiences in “Survival in Auschwitz...
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