Skip to content
  • About
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Ancient Greek
  • Ethics
  • World Religions
  • Psychology of Religion
  • Contact

Freud

A Comparison of Freud and Jung on Religion

April 28, 2016March 8, 2016 by Amy Trumpeter

Today, I will be comparing two famous Psychologists on their views of religion – I hope that you enjoy my comparison of Freud and Jung. 1: For Freud religion was an obsessional neurosis. People need to be ‘cured’ of religion- He believed that psychology would eventually succeed in explaining religion away in much the same way … Read more

Categories Psychology of Religion Tags Freud, Jung 7 Comments

Is there any Truth in Freud on Religion?

May 12, 2020May 27, 2015 by Amy Trumpeter

Despite the criticism Freud receives for his far-fetched psychoanalysis of people and religion, there are some positives which can be drawn out from his work. #1 Paul Tillich’s Positive view on Freud Paul Tillich welcomes Freud analysis of religion. This is because Freud seemed to draw attention to the way in which Christianity had become … Read more

Categories Psychology of Religion Tags Freud 2 Comments

Sigmund Freud and his Psychoanalytical views on Religion

May 12, 2020May 23, 2015 by Amy Trumpeter

The Psychology of Religion is a fascinating topic. I find it interesting how psychologists of the past have used psychology to either explain religion or explain it away. To me, there is no-one more interesting in the field of psychology and religion and Sigmund Freud. With a deep rooted psychology based on the super ego, … Read more

Categories Psychology of Religion Tags Freud 1 Comment

Recent Posts

  • Branches of Philosophy
  • Introduction to World Religions
  • What is the difference between Act and rule Utilitarianism?
  • Hume’s objections to the Teleological Argument for God
  • Teleological Argument for the existence of God

ADVERTISEMENT

Categories

Categories

  • Ancient Greek Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Popular Posts
  • Products
  • Psychology of Religion
  • Religious Language
  • World Religions

Philosophyzer is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and other affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Affiliate links may be used on this page and in Philosophyzer articles, but they do not impact on the price that you pay and they do help me to get this information to you for free. Read my privacy policy for more information.

  • Home
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
© 2022 Philosphyzer - website design by Trumpeter Media
Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
Functional cookies Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}