Re: Freud and humanity

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:49:32 -0700

I found "The Question of God" to be an interesting read. However, I thought the author attempted too often to make implications about Freud's personal life/behaviors that were unnecessary. And I should say that I'm a behaviorist and no great fan of Freud or his theories.

Cecil

Hetzel, Rod wrote:
Hey folks.  Someone made a passing reference in one of our recent
religion discussions about how Freud believed that people were too
inherently self-centered (or something else) to truly "turn the other
cheek" or love others.  Can someone point me to some of Freud's writing
where he discussed this?  I'm hoping our resident Freud scholar can
offer some guidance on this!

On a related note, does anyone have a review of the next text, "The
Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and
the Meaning of Life"?  It's on my list of must-reads but I haven't
gotten around to it yet.

Rod  

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From: DeVolder Carol L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:55 PM
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Subject: RE: IQ



    
Thanks for a good discussion

I'm trying to not commit the same errors I usually make and 
clog the list with what some might see as irrelevant material

Cheers,
Jim
    
I've enjoyed all of your discussions of this very much 
(although I must admit, I felt sort of ignorant in the 
presence of you scholars). I have a question that is only 
slightly related to this discussion...

There is/was a practice of mortification of sins (or so I've 
been told), in which the sinner beat the guilt out of himself 
(OK, I admit, my understanding is vague, please correct me on 
this, I'd appreciate it). My real question is this: Does 
anyone know anything about the concept of mortification of 
memory? It has to do with purging one's self of sinful 
memories or something like that. I'm presently involved in 
research on directed forgetting/instructed ignoring and see a 
historical precursor.

Thanks for any help that anyone can give me.
Carol

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