SOCIOL 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oedipus Complex, The Human Instinct, Libido
24 Mar 2016
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The origin of the religious attitude can be traced back in clear outlines as far as the feeling of infantile helplessness. The intoxicating substances influence our body and alter its chemistry (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system (cid:1: 25. What decides this purpose of life is simply the program of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things (cid:1: 26. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We tend to regard it as a kind of gratuitous addiction, although we cannot be any less fatefully inevitable than the suffering which comes from elsewhere. (cid:1: 27.
