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His idea of the id explains why people act out in certain ways, when it is not in line with the ego or superego. Id, ego, and superego Id Īccording to Freud, the id is the part of the unconscious that seeks pleasure. This suppression leads to the girl identifying with her mother and acquiring feminine traits. Girls then repress this feeling and instead long for a child of their own. Females are jealous of their fathers’ penis and wish to have one as well. Females also experience penis envy which is the parallel reaction to the male experience of castration anxiety. Girls become jealous of their mothers and begin to feel desire towards their fathers. While the Oedipus complex presents itself in males, females experience a different form of incestuous rivalry known as the Electra complex. Boys fear that their fathers will retaliate and castrate them as a result of desiring one’s mother. Along with seeking his mother’s love, boys also experience castration anxiety, which is the fear of losing their genitalia. The boy strives to possess his mother and ultimately replace his father as a means of no longer having to fight for her undivided attention and affection. The Oedipus complex is when a boy is jealous of his father.
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Freud’s interest in Greek mythology and religion greatly influenced his psychological theories. According to Freud, there is an unconscious desire for one’s mother to be a virgin and for one’s father to be an all-powerful, almighty figure. In Freud’s psychosexual stages, he mentions the Oedipus complex and the Electra complex and how they affect children and their relationships with their same-sex parental figure. Greek Mythology Īccording to Freud’s many theories of religion, the Oedipus complex is utilized in the understanding and mastery of religious beliefs. This relates to the idea of religion because Freud believes that people created religion in order to create these group ties that they unconsciously seek for. The commonness among different people with different egos allows people to identify with one another.
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Groups are necessary, according to Freud, in order to decrease the narcissism in all people by creating libidinal ties with others by placing everyone at an equal level. In this type of group, everything is dependent on that external force and without it, the group would no longer exist. In his book Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Freud argues that the church and organized religion forms an “artificial group” which requires an external force to keep it together. He believes that people act in different ways according to the demands and constraints of the group as a whole. Freud does a significant amount of research studying how people act and interact in a group setting. Unconscious desires motivate people to act accordingly. The idea that religion causes people to behave in a moral way is incorrect according to Freud because he believes that no other force has the power to control the ways in which people act. The role of the mind is something that Freud repeatedly talks about because he believes that the mind is responsible for both conscious and unconscious decisions based on drives and forces. This reverses the idea of any type of religion because he believes that religion is constructed by the mind. The basis of Christian theology states, “ God created humanity in his image” ( Genesis 1:27), but Freud argues that humanity created God in their image. Freud believes that people rely on religion to give explanations for anxieties and tension they do not want to consciously believe in. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." (Freud).