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...terpretation]] of religion's origins, [[development]], [[psychoanalysis]], and its future. ...nt wishes of mankind" (Ch. 6 pg. 30). To differentiate between an illusion and an error, he lists [[scientific]] beliefs such as "''[[Aristotle]]'s belief

...rtain rites. In this [[sense]] we agree with [[philosopher]] Michel Serres and the linguistÉmile Benveniste that the opposite of religion is negligence. ...1907. The first book in which he discussed religious themes was [[Totem]] and [[Taboo]] (1912-1913a).

[[Another]] [[Freudian]] conceptualization of overdetermination, lateral and etiopathogenic, views psychic formations as the outcome of a cumulation of ...hical]] intensity along associative chains and ramifications. Displacement and condensation, he argued, were the foundation of dream-formation.

...any extreme [[change]] in emotion that results in the renewal, restoration and revitalization for [[living]]. ...s'' (literally, astonishment), from which the modern [[word]] [[exstasis]] and [[ecstasy]] are derived.

...heir word taboo and what many races in America, Africa (Madagascar), North and Central Asia express through analogous designations.<BR> ...serve inheres in taboo; taboo expresses itself essentially in prohibitions and restrictions. Our combination of "holy dread" would often express the meani

...ic]] [[thought]] of western [[culture]]. This universalizing, comparative, and evolutionist attitude reached its apogee in [[James]] G. Frazer. It disappe ...ldren]], just as it itself is honoured by [[them]] as being their ancestor and is spared by them. We have here arrived at the considerations of matters wh

...ed by four major [[categories]]: [[Concepts]]/Notions, Biographies, Works, and [[History]]. [[All categories]] are subcategorized, with the exception of B [[Projection]] and "[[participation]] mystique"

...would later describe this as an action that occurs in a second [[moment]], and which seeks to undo an action that precedes it. "Obsessional [[ideas]] are ...pearance]] of an event but to undo it, which is [[irrational]] and magical and most likely arises from an animist attitude toward the [[environment]]. [[A

...language and [[human]] [[subjectivity]], and the [[meaning]] of '[[full]]' and 'empty' [[speech]]. ...ated by Edmund [[Husserl]] and, more recently, by Jean-[[Paul]] [[Sartre]] and Maurice [[Merleau-Ponty]]. The [[phenomenological]] method concentrates on

...opsychoanalysis continues in the [[tradition]] of [[Freud]]'s sociological and anthropological efforts. .../i> (1895). The [[French]] [[terms]] "sociopsychanalyse," "socioanalyse, " and

...the rite of passage remains in use. Sigmund [[Freud]]'s writings on the [[ritual]] can be included among the great variety on the [[subject]], although, but ...Taboo]]</i> (1912-13a), is the basis for Freud's perspective on individual and collective ceremonials.

[[Another]] [[Freudian]] conceptualization of overdetermination, lateral and etiopathogenic, views psychic formations as the outcome of a cumulation of ...hical]] intensity along associative chains and ramifications. Displacement and condensation, he argued, were the foundation of dream-formation.

...lses to perform actions which seem absurd and/or abhorrent to the subject, and ...[[subject]] may well exhibit none of the typical obsessional [[symptoms]] and yet still be diagnosed as an [[obsessional neurotic]] by a [[Lacan]]ian [[a

...derivation of a need for religion from the child's feeling of helplessness and the longing it evokes for a father seems to me incontrovertible, especially ...the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines car

...and consists in the instinct's directing itself towards an aim other than, and remote from, that of sexual gratification; in this process the accent falls ...ch the excessive excitations from individual sexual sources are discharged and utilized in other spheres, so that no small enhancement of mental capacity