.jpg?w=1)
細節
FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939). Autograph letter signed ("Prof. Freud") to Isidore Magarik, London, 4 July 1938. 1 page, large 8vo, on Freud's personal stationery, original envelope addressed in Freud's hand.
"NO ONE WHO SEEKS CONSOLATION IN THE HOLY BIBLE OR IN THE PRAYERS OF THE SYNAGOGUE IS IN DANGER OF LOOSING [SIC] HIS FAITH BY MY PREACHINGS"
A highly interesting letter in which the father of modern psychoanalysis addresses concerns over the impact of his theories upon religious faith. Responding to a letter which raised the issue, Freud writes: "I appreciate fully the motives of your letter, but I think you highly overrate the possible influence of my writings. No one who seeks consolation in the holy Bible or in the prayers of the Synagogue is in danger of loosing [sic] his faith by my preachings. I even think he will not come to learn, whatever it is I believe [in] and defend in my books. Faith cannot be shaken by such means. I do not write for the people or the mass of believers. I just provide scientific stuff for the interest of a minority which has no faith to lose."
Freud based his theories of psychoanalysis upon the principle that human actions and emotions were driven by the workings of the subconscious mind. Instinct, he believed, was the foundation upon which everything else functioned. His teachings often appeared to coflict with traditional religious beliefs and even to challenge the very foundations of faith. Freud argued that religious ideas "are not precipitates of experience or end results of our thinking...[but] illusions, fulfillments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind" (Kung, Freud and the Problem of God, p. 20). But although Freud believed that religion could be repressive, he "recognized that religion extended into areas of thought that were beyond the scope of science, and he acknowledged the historical importance of its teachings and doctrines in these areas" (New, ed., Cambridge Companion to Freud, p. 288).
"NO ONE WHO SEEKS CONSOLATION IN THE HOLY BIBLE OR IN THE PRAYERS OF THE SYNAGOGUE IS IN DANGER OF LOOSING [SIC] HIS FAITH BY MY PREACHINGS"
A highly interesting letter in which the father of modern psychoanalysis addresses concerns over the impact of his theories upon religious faith. Responding to a letter which raised the issue, Freud writes: "I appreciate fully the motives of your letter, but I think you highly overrate the possible influence of my writings. No one who seeks consolation in the holy Bible or in the prayers of the Synagogue is in danger of loosing [sic] his faith by my preachings. I even think he will not come to learn, whatever it is I believe [in] and defend in my books. Faith cannot be shaken by such means. I do not write for the people or the mass of believers. I just provide scientific stuff for the interest of a minority which has no faith to lose."
Freud based his theories of psychoanalysis upon the principle that human actions and emotions were driven by the workings of the subconscious mind. Instinct, he believed, was the foundation upon which everything else functioned. His teachings often appeared to coflict with traditional religious beliefs and even to challenge the very foundations of faith. Freud argued that religious ideas "are not precipitates of experience or end results of our thinking...[but] illusions, fulfillments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind" (Kung, Freud and the Problem of God, p. 20). But although Freud believed that religion could be repressive, he "recognized that religion extended into areas of thought that were beyond the scope of science, and he acknowledged the historical importance of its teachings and doctrines in these areas" (New, ed., Cambridge Companion to Freud, p. 288).