PSYC 3570 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fatalism, No Age, Sigmund Freud
30 Nov 2015
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Phillipe aries: his effort to identify basic themes in attitudes toward death over an extended period. Four psychological themes and their variations: awareness of the individual, the defense of society against untamed nature, the belief in an afterlife, belief in the existence of evil. The hour of death became the most important hour of life. Not thinking about death is a failure. Losing a loved one connecting death to life in a very personal way. A living will people do not want to think about/plan their own death arrangements. Anxiety, denial, acceptance, identify with death (killing others in reality or games) Low to moderate level of death anxiety. No age difference or lower death anxiety for elders. Death anxiety is higher in those with psychiatric conditions. Two theories of death anxiety: early psychoanalytic theory. Sigmund freud reasoned that we could not really be anxious about death: thanatophobia.
