I am a psychology minor, so Freud is a big deal for me. I don't fully agree or disagree with him, but I also cannot escape him no matter how many classes I take. Freud relates well to this class in that he expressed an opinion against religion, against God in particular.
Freud sees God as wishful thinking, as a psychological belief system that he chooses not to believe in. I found this a bit odd, counterproductive, and maybe a little contradictory to his nature.
Freud is all about the deeper workings of the mind. He dealt in abstractions all of the time. While his concepts are intelligent, no one can fully prove the existence of a subconscious mental system. Nor can a person prove the sexual development of children. Everything he believes can be disputed given the lack of falsifiability and proof. As a psychologist, he should have been far more empirical. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate his theories. I'm just saying that for one man dealing in abstracts to call another abstract idea wishful thinking is about hypocritical.
I was perhaps most perplexed given Freud's extensive focus on dreams. If you believe that the mind has such capability that it functions even when the body is not in use, how can you not believe in the potential for existence beyond the same body. How can one rule out an idea because it cannot be proven when he himself views every crevice in dreams to be somehow related to a vagina? Ladies and Gentlemen, I rest my case.
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