10.31 observation
In class today we had a lecture over comparative religion, which is the finding of universals across religions. Freud, Erikson, Anna, Jung, Lacan, Durkheim, Newmann, and Bowlby were among the people discussed. For Erikson, ego-identity and personality were brought up. Anna's psychoanalytic society was a topic, tieing in Lacan and Bowlby's attachment and self vs. other theories. For Jung, we talked about the universal symbols and the collective unconscious. Fear of mortality was discussed, which started my idea for my third essay.
Durkheim believed religion was the fundamental unit of society. Tribalism, Totemism, and animism were topics we talked about, along with shamen and rites of passage into adulthood. Campbell's Monomyth was a bigger part of our discussion, as well as Erich Newmann's Great Mother Theory.
In this observation, I was supposed to define comparative religion terms from the moo. However, the moo has been down, so this will be impossible.