The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy and Sane. Matthew Hutson (Author) 2012 I think one of the things that made Freud and his mentee, Jung go different ways was the belief that things happen for a reason. Sigmund Freud insists that the only real thing is that we are here, on Earth, we live, things happen and we take a bow. Events that happen around us occur at random at its own pace unrelated to our existence. Jung, on the other hand, felt that everything happened for a reason. There may be a cause for an event if we look hard enough. But, are we over analysing and trying to convince ourselves of some fixed ideas that we had concocted to allay our own anxieties? Thanks to Kr and SK for sharing this book. The author of this book is trying to convince us, in his own witty way, that, despite our different levels of religiosity or therein lack of, we are all believers of magic. We place our trusts in objects, events and signs t...
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