PSYC 3570 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Gunther Von Hagens, Plastination, Hindu Philosophy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3570
• Professor: Erin Allard

Document Summary

Isis is one of many deities who have been linked with the continued commerce between life and death: the one is always passing the other. Sigmund freud had the concept of death instinct. Thanatos after the greek god who delivers a peaceful death. The freudian concept was mostly rejected except dor those in neuroscientists who find it a heuristic idea to pair with pcd (cell death). Thanatos is regarded as part of the larger process that generates new cells and maintains organ function though not forever (there are other kinds of cell death as well. Accidents can destroy cells and so can developmental, particularly genetic factors). Ideas about the nature and meaning of death. Hindu philosophy, birth, death, rebirth, and then again, death are linked in a constantly recurring cycle. We are born to die, but die to be reborn. What we mean by death becomes of practical importance when we communicate with others who have a different conception.