Friday, March 20, 2009

Having a Bad Day (metaphysical)


Having a bad day in its metaphysical context can only allude to thoughts that can be disruptive and negative. Such a state may take the form of hysteria, depression and aggression. Having a bad day can be of great concern to Christians for to us thought life is so important, because it is the reason for our salvation John 3:16, saved through faith means we are saved by the thought of Jesus Christ. Early examples of schizophrenia in the bible were described as demon possession, so Christianity bears a close relationship with the medical specialty of psychiatry. In fact the relationship of Christianity and psychiatry are so close that the proponents of intelligent design would be better served if they reformulated their theories to conform with the medical specialty of psychiatry rather than the branch of the natural sciences known as biology.
The subconscious mind is the source of our dreams when we sleep. Freud called dreams the "royal road to the unconscious". The unconscious was defined by Freud to contain three parts the ego, the super-ego and the id. It is this subconscious that can be the cause of your bad day and the main reason for having a bad day is repression. Repression is the burying (without our knowing it) of painful memories and traumatic experiences. Freud also believed that the underlying cause for many disorders was sexual which gave rise to the complaint that Freud was too obsessed with sex. Hence the back and forth when Sigmund Freud was asked whether his cigar habit was evidence he was repressing certain sexual desires which he quipped “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”.

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