Sigmund Freud saw in religion a universal obsessional neurosis of the masses and a childlike world of wishes. His critique was psychological: God, he argued, is only a projection of the father, protecting us in our helplessness before nature.
Sigmund Freud saw in religion a universal obsessional neurosis of the masses and a childlike world of wishes. His critique was psychological: God, he argued, is only a projection of the father, protecting us in our helplessness before nature.