1. (A) What is humanistic psychology? (B)How does this tradition view religion? (C) What is the distinction between philosophical humanism and humanistic psychology?
Humanistic psychology is the subfield of psychology that studies the whole person (129). The hierarchy of humanistic psychology looks at the physiological, safety, love, esteem and self-actualization aspects of a person. This subfield was founded by Carl Rogers, who emphasized how and why an individual’s brain perceives specific events. This is aimed to understand the study of self. Typically, this study is called the “third force,” because many psychologists had rejected that humanism was psychoanalytic. Humanistic psychology paired with psychoanalysis to further understand the …show more content…
(A) Briefly summarize Jung’s attitude toward religion. (B) What criticisms have been positioned against his approach to the psychology of religion?
Jung’s attitude brings up several key points towards the topic of religion. He believes people have a religious instinct, to a higher force or being, like God. He does not, however, look into its meaning but its “therapeutic value” (464). Through this, Jung sees the mental process of individuation leads to the idea of God. This process of individuation looks into the underlying motives of the conscious and unconscious components of the psyche. Archetypes from religion, art and religion, have attached meanings to understanding the components of the psyche.
Buber, critiqued Jung and claimed that Jung was not a master in theology and could not assert the existence of God dependent on the realms of psychology. Richard Noll criticized that people could not be religious of a particular denomination, like Catholicism and be a Jung follower, because it contradicted the beliefs of both ideas.
In addition, Jung does not show concern for the meaning, but the root of what it offers to the person. He also denies metaphysics and definitions of the self, because he believes the self is discovered in the second half of
Humanistic psychology is the subfield of psychology that studies the whole person (129). The hierarchy of humanistic psychology looks at the physiological, safety, love, esteem and self-actualization aspects of a person. This subfield was founded by Carl Rogers, who emphasized how and why an individual’s brain perceives specific events. This is aimed to understand the study of self. Typically, this study is called the “third force,” because many psychologists had rejected that humanism was psychoanalytic. Humanistic psychology paired with psychoanalysis to further understand the …show more content…
(A) Briefly summarize Jung’s attitude toward religion. (B) What criticisms have been positioned against his approach to the psychology of religion?
Jung’s attitude brings up several key points towards the topic of religion. He believes people have a religious instinct, to a higher force or being, like God. He does not, however, look into its meaning but its “therapeutic value” (464). Through this, Jung sees the mental process of individuation leads to the idea of God. This process of individuation looks into the underlying motives of the conscious and unconscious components of the psyche. Archetypes from religion, art and religion, have attached meanings to understanding the components of the psyche.
Buber, critiqued Jung and claimed that Jung was not a master in theology and could not assert the existence of God dependent on the realms of psychology. Richard Noll criticized that people could not be religious of a particular denomination, like Catholicism and be a Jung follower, because it contradicted the beliefs of both ideas.
In addition, Jung does not show concern for the meaning, but the root of what it offers to the person. He also denies metaphysics and definitions of the self, because he believes the self is discovered in the second half of