Darwin&Freud

Charles Darwin

 * ====** challenged traditional religious views **====

Freud Thesis: Darwin's threories about human evolution and natural selection challenged religious and moral teachings and Freuds theroies about psychanalysis challenged teahcings about morality and human behavior by going against traditonal teachings, founded high controversy yet later become widley accepted.
 * ==== The Descent of Man ====
 * ==== About human evolution ====
 * ==== We descended from other mammals ====
 * ==== were not above evolution/natural selection ====
 * ====**__ Highly controversial bc his theory on humans bc it made humans ordinary, not unique products of nature and would degrade the human race= goes against traditional Catholic Church teachings bc this view degrades the human race and ununique products of nature __**====
 * **challenged traditional morality views**
 * On the Origin of Species
 * ==== About Evolution and Natural Selection ====
 * ==== only the strongest survive and adapt ====
 * ideas later transformed into political movement called Social Dawrnism
 * **__challenged traditional morality and behavioral views__**
 * psychanalysis
 * humanbehavior determined by:
 * *unconscious
 * explored it using hypnosis and dreams
 * repression: unsetteling experiences blocked from the persons awareness but still influenced behavior
 * begin in childhood
 * sexual repression: Oedipus complex: kid wants to have sex w/ mom and kill the dad.
 * describes in his //Introductory Lectures// (Twenty-First Lecture): "the Greek legend of King Oedipus, who was destined by fate to kill his father and take his mother to wife".
 * According to Freud, Sophocles' play, //Oedipus Rex//, illustrates a stage in each individual's psychosexual development, when the young child transfers his love object from the breast to the mother. The child desires the mother and resents (even secretly desires the murder) of the father. These desires are quickly repressed but, they will arise again in dreams.
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 * id, ego, superego