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KMID : 0376719830070020048
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Seoul Journal of Psychiatry
1983 Volume.7 No. 2 p.48 ~ p.62
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The Theory of Religion of Sigmund Freud
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Abstract
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The theory of religion of Sigmund Freud was summarized as follows.
1. Freud was an atheist.
2. Freud´s atheism was originated from materialism and Catholic anti-Semitism in the nineteenth century.
3. Freud reached the study of religion at the end of his long road from cerebral anatomy
and cerebral physiology, by way of psychopathology, to his new form of psychology.
4. Freud was struck by the resemblances between obsessive actions in neurotics and religious ceremonials of believers. He regarded obsessional neurosis as a pathologic counterpart of religion. He also descrived that neurosis as an individual religiosity and religion as a universal obsession.
5. Freud concluded that God was product of the Oedipus complex and helplessness of mankind.
6. Freud asserted that religious ideas should be replaced by reason and natural science because these were illusions.
7. Freud conjectured that the remorse feeling for the murder of Moses had provided the wishful phantasy of Messiah.
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