Freud Vs Durkheim

The Parallel Between Sigmund Freud and Emile Durkheim Sigmund Freud is a renowned neurologist that studied through the lens of psychopathology. He is famous for generalizing the psycho-sexual theories that involve sexual impulses, repression, and more, but his contribution is far more than disfiguring family figure to the worship and dependency of male’s genital. Civilization and Its Discontents is one of his widely read book that attempted to explore the clash between the desire for individuality and the society’s expectations of conformity. The first chapter serves more as an add-on for his previous book The Future of an Illusion. The Future of an Illusion depicted religion as a social agent that creates the sense of community around a shared set of beliefs, this chapter he elaborated the feeling of ‘oceanic’, a psychological need to be religious, which he had yet to experience and excluded in the previous book. This is extremely intriguing for me, I do believe that religion generates a sense of community and unity while also providing

There was a recognition that in the modern world, society has changed. Capitalism, movement, technology, etc. have changed the social life - challenging bonds of social unity. In the modern world, traditional social and religious ties are no longer assumed. He noticed the increase in the division of labor, and that it is universal. He created a hypothesis that the function of the division of labor is to create social solidarity. Durkheim sought to understand how moral and religious factors function in society. Durkheim is famous for his thoughts on social solidarity. The idea that society bound together by ideas and social unity. What we think of ourselves held us together. This echoes with Freud’s concept of religion uniting people in the