ORTHODOXY, FREUDIANISM AND ORIGINAL SIN

Written by Vladimir Moss

If Darwin defined the modern, twentieth-century attitude to the physical and biological world, and Marx did the same in relation to the social and political world, Sigmund Freud defined it in relation to the inner world of the psyche, including religion. His theory, like theirs, is a doctrine of will understood in the broadest sense; he takes the will to survive, to conquer and to reproduce that we find in the physical, biological and social worlds, and internalizes it within the individual psyche and in particular within the unconscious, the “id”. The purpose of this article is to examine to what extent Freudianism is compatible with Orthodoxy, and in particular whether the Freudian “id” has any relation to the Christian concept of original sin. Read Complete Article Here

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