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is a belief for which one resents oneself for having once believed.

Superstitions are beliefs which informants have held or abhorred or remembered as once believed (Forster 103). Forster, Eleanor Anne. 'The Proverb and the Superstition Defined.' University of Pennsylvania, 1968.

is a belief which fails the test of a belief because it leaves no place for doubt.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief... it is a superstition. (Jose Bergamin)

is a belief which leaves no place for doubt.

is a kind of hallucination through which one satisfies desires by replacing sensory satisfaction with mental satisfaction (thus releasing pent-up tension). It is a kind of wish-fulfillment.

Freud argues that at the bottom of magic superstition, one can find wish fulfillment. He says that a child 'satisfies his wishes by means of hallucinations, in that it creates the satisfying situation through centrifugal excitements of its sensory organs'(139). 'omnipotence of thought' basically describes this as 'an excessive valuation of a wish' wish fulfillment. If you think, for example that your wearing lucky socks will effect the game you plan to watch on T.V.' This is a performative act. He says, 'Such a representation of the gratified wish is altogether comparable to the play of children, where it replaces the purely sensory technique of gratification.' (Freud p139). He argues metonymy then as 'will then show us that the psychic valuation of the wish and the will has been extended to all psychic acts which the will can command' (140).

is always lying just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects. Carl Jung

is at its core, the most tangible of all faiths.

Superstition is, at its core, the most tangible of all faiths. -Roberto Gervaso

is frozen ideology, a pathological social condition that obstructs the developments in the arts and sciences, and so frustrates the central aim of education.

frozen ideology, a pathological social condition that obstructs the developments in the arts and sciences, and so frustrates the central aim of education.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism. Denis Diderot (1746)

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