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ROW 2 Becker
Question | Answer |
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Becker says death is biologically innate, meaning.. | we are born with the fear of death |
What is the healthy minded arguement about the fear of death? | We are born without the fear of death. |
What is the morbidly minded view about the fear of death? | we are born with an awareness of death and an awareness of our finitude |
Becker must be implying that the fear of death is | instinctual |
What does Becker use to support his point? | Repression, we repress death. |
Paradox | seeing something in two different ways |
Paradox about death according to Becker | one hand we are symbolic creatures with our art and religion, and on the other we are worm food |
We are not Gods, we have bodies that will die | finite |
What does Becker mean by we are the status of a small God? | we are the highest beings on Earth, we bath, we clean, we do something |
Why are we hyper anxious creatures? | Because we have too much awareness |
What are secret psychoses, that are the little individual things that help us deny reality? | Character traits |
According to Becker, _____ is a fiction or lie to make ourselves feel better about our situations. | culture |
What is the basic dualistic model that Becker is working with? | man is part animal, part cultural |
What two sides are always fighting one another, always a struggle? | the animal and the cultural side |
Because we worry and get anxious and fear death, we respond by | trying to forget we are going to die |
The way we deal with death is | our religion |
The West belives in | an afterlife |
The East belives in | reincarnation and Karma |
Beckers says | The essense of normality is the denial of reality |
To be normal, | you have to deny what's real |
In the tribal community everyone believes what happens to you after you die the same. | (blank) |
In the western society there are lots of different ideas about what happens to you after you die | (blank) |
Why does most everyone have an urge to be a hero? | We all want to mean something |
What are some small examples of heros? | people who show up to work everyday, people who take care of their family |
Spectacular examples of heros | Soilders, firemen, doing things in the face of death |
We have to overcome our fear of _____ to be a hero is some way | death |
Anality | a humans animal side |
_____ deals with anality, _____ says anality does not have the last word. | Culture |
How do we as humans deal with Anality? | We bath, we have funneral rituals, put on makeup, do things to take care of our body, use deoderant |
Which people are more obsessed with anality? | Anal retentive personality |
Which people are more cultural than others? | Anal people |
All cultures manifest ___ guilt in some form. | Sexual. |
Becker says sex on a basic level is | animal procreation, the root of sexual guilt is because it is just an animal act. |
Culturization | the process whereby humans take the world of limitless possibilities but all cultures narrow those down to a select few. Ex. in no one place does everyone eat everything. We don't eat dogs, ppl in Trinidad don't eat frog legs. |
Other animals copulate, we have _____ | romances |
Moratlity police | people who are extra concerned with their culture and are very concerned that people follow their idea of culture |
A person's lifestyle is a vital lie, meaning... | neccessary because you'll go crazy without it, to have a life of meaning, it's a fictious and made up on some level. |
Becker was very impressed with ___________ work. | Kierkegaardians |
Most of us would fall into what Kierkegaardian category? | inauthentic man |
If you don't see the truth of this, you could be religious, but | you'll only be religious in a cultural sense. It wouldn't be you, it would be artifical. |
Until you realize that you will not have a truly meaningful relationship with | God |
Kierkegaardian does not believe in | organized religion |
Kierkegaardian thinks that through ________ you arrive at a true relationship with God | Existentialism |
Why would Kierkegaardian take it an extra step than Becker? | Because he was spiritual. |
What are the two main objections Becker had regarding Freud? | Becker thinks the main determinat is more general than sexual libido, it's our animal nature and he thought through time we could cope by just using science.and reason. |
Dictatorship of reason | we will think through our problems using science and no one will need religion |
Becker says | There is something that religions gives people that they can't get anywhere else. |
What are the two basic problems with romance? | Sex, it's an animal act (anytime you engage in anything that brings you in contact with your animal nature it causes problems, your mate, after infactuation, the special person is not so special anymore. |
Where do we get our Sexual taboos from? | Your culture decides |
Why do we read Becker? | He challenges us and ask is religion based on the super natural or are we religious because of anality? |
Becker says the orgin of religion is | anality |
Several people do not agree with Becker but even if you are a born again christian it has relavence to explain | why everybody else is religious |