Jung

Can anyone help me with how to answer this question:

"Jung's Understanding of Religious Belief was Right."

It was part of a mock I did, and we haven't done criticicms etc of him.

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rahmara

hey

CARL JUNG

Jung was a close friend and student of Freud until their relationship was broken by differing attitudes towards religion. Contrary to Freud who was hostile towards religion, Jung was supportive of religion.

Jung distinguished between the personal unconscious which was very similar to Freud’s understanding of the id, and the collective unconscious. The collective unconscious is shared by all humans and consists of a series of pre-dispositions known as archetypes. For Jung, people develop their own ideas of the archetype of God who is real and important to such people. Whether or not he actually exists in reality is beyond the scope of psychology.

Central to Jung’s ides is the concept of libido – which, unlike Freudian thought, is not limited to sexual desire but the basic drive in all of us to be fulfilled in life. For Jung, religion, one’s relationship with God, plays an important part in healthy individuation – the development of an individual’s potential.

Jung rejected Freud’s claim that religion was a neurotic illness caused by sexual trauma, but rather a natural process stemming from the archetypes in the unconscious mind. Jung accepted that there was a spiritual side to human life, and to try to remove this could be detrimental, since religion performs the function of harmonising the psyche and as such is beneficial.

Criticisms

The argument is still routed in human self-interest. It does not answer the Kantian-minded philosophy of performing one’s duty for duty’s sake or pursuing intrinsic goodness. Morality remains extrinsic, instrumental to the health of the human psyche.
People could also be said to be turning to their archetype of God rather than to God himself. Morality thus is still routed within the human self and does not have any type of external authority.

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Kerris007