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This was an undergraduate essay for a Psychology of Religion module.\u00a0 I “wandered off the script” in writing this essay which was primarily supposed to be contrasting Freud’s and Jung’s views of the role of religion – Freud was well known for his disdain of it and Jung for his valuing of it.\u00a0 However, I asserted that Freud, an atheist, Jewish intellectual of his time, was actually borrowing from Marxism, Jung was creative but theologically heterodox and that scientific psychological analysis (totally uncovered in the course) was important to consider when answering this question.\u00a0 As a consequence, it did not get a stellar mark but still a respectable one but I find it an interesting and adventurous essay.<\/p>\n

A PDF of the essay is found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This was an undergraduate essay for a Psychology of Religion module.\u00a0 I “wandered off the script” in writing this essay which was primarily supposed to be contrasting Freud’s and Jung’s views of the role of religion – Freud was well known for his disdain of it and Jung for his valuing of it.\u00a0 However, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,15,24],"tags":[149,150,147,151],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","category-psychology-of-religion","category-science","tag-freud","tag-jung","tag-jungian-analytic-psychology","tag-mental-health"],"yoast_head":"\r\nDoes religion hinder or enable psychological health? - Planet M Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Does religion hinder or enable psychological health - contrasting the views of Freud, Jung and scientific psychology.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/does-religion-hinder-or-enable-psychological-health\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does religion hinder or enable psychological health? 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