Key insights from
Psychology and Religion
What you'll learn
The late psychoanalyst Carl Jung was invited by Yale in 1937 to give a series of lectures on the light psychology sheds on religion. These are some of his reflections.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Organized religion always has its origin in an experience with something powerful and mysterious.
- 2 However modern and sophisticated we consider ourselves, our distant primitive past is with us.
- 3 Dreams and intuitions often give us a better idea of what truly matters to us than our conscious beliefs.
- 4 We find peace by making peace with the “other side” of us that we repress and isolate.