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Are you... Your feelings? Your thoughts? Your ideals?

The Challenge of Psychoanalysis. To explain psychoanalytic theory To evaluate if this theory opposes religious faith . Are you... Your feelings? Your thoughts? Your ideals?. Psychoanalysis describes the mind in these 3 parts – who is the real you?.

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Are you... Your feelings? Your thoughts? Your ideals?

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  1. The Challenge of Psychoanalysis • To explain psychoanalytic theory • To evaluate if this theory opposes religious faith Are you...Your feelings?Your thoughts? Your ideals? Psychoanalysis describes the mind in these 3 parts – who is the real you?

  2. The mind can be thought of as an iceberg, with three levels. Because it isn’t acceptable to have strong, selfish feelings (greedy, envious, angry, selfish) we lock them away, out of sight, in the back of our minds – this is the ID. We don’t want anyone (including us) to think we are really like this. We often don’t even know we have such feelings. Most of minds is made up of such feelings, under the surface. The EGO, is our everyday self, how we manage our day. We take pride in being a certain kind of person: organised, hardworking, energetic, interested, fair, loyal, funny. So we protect our ego from embarassment and shame. But it is partly just an image – a lot of the real you is hidden in the id! The SUPEREGO is the way we boss ourselves about. You must do this/ you shouldn’t do that... It is like an echo of our parents/ teachers voices telling us what is good/ bad behaviour. Our superego can give us a hard time – the phrase “don’t beat yourself up about it” shows that someone’s superego has been telling them off for something. The superego can be good as well – telling you to do the best that you can. Conscious Draw the iceberg diagram. Add labels to explain each part. Why is the ego not the real you? Why could a superego make you feel guilty? **If you feel guilty about something, is that just the superego talking (the voice of your parents/ teachers)? Or a truthful awareness of sin?

  3. Id, Ego, Superego How did the id react in the situation with the boss? With the girl? How did the superego react? What was the job of the ego in these situations? • Think of an example in your own life where • You want to do/ have something (id) –What would the id say? • It is not good to get it (superego) – what would the superego say? • What decision would your ego make about it, juggling between id and superego?

  4. The Problem Explain 2 ways (or 1 way in detail) that psychoanalytic theory of the mind challenges religious ideas. Which do you agree with?? • Are all our real emotions selfish/ greedy/ aggressive (the id)? Is there such a thing as true, unselfish love? • Is there such a thing as a true conscience, or is it just our superego, echoing the rules of our parents/ culture? • Is there a real “you”, a soul? Or are you just a mix of id, ego & superego?

  5. Freud Freud, who invented psychoanalysis, thought that God the Father was just a superego version of our human father, to look after them and protect them. Do you think this is all that God is?Or is there a spiritual reality we call God?

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