Examine Freud’s View of Religious Belief. Essay

Sigmund Freud was natural in 1856 he lived most of his life in Vienna. His family were Jewish so was brought in a religious faith. Freud fled the Nazis in capital of the United Kingdom then died the following year on the 23rd of September 1939. He was an atheist. He saw himself as The Godless Jew. He rejected both America and Religion. Freud had a Neurotic and obsessional character. Freuds view on religious belief was a form of neurotic illness. Freud believed that religious activities discharge a striking resemblance to the activities of a neurotic person. Neurotic conditions such(prenominal) as OCD repeat actions which. Primal Horde Theory, Freuds principle voice was the idea of the murder of the primitive horde one day, the brothers who have been determined out, came together killed and devoured their engender and so made an end to the patriarchal horde.The leader was killed out of jealously, as he was taking all the women. In wrong-doing for the murder of their father figu re they put up a Totem, token or animal which is believed that their spirit is inside in place of their father figure. Guilt was eventually paid of by praying or sacrificing to them Totem. Over millions of eld the Totem becomes God, guilt then passed. The Totem is seen as sacred and must be protected. by and by a year the animal believed to be the Totem could be killed then eaten. The Oedipus complex, Freud believed that everyone suffered a dramatic trauma which was the Oedipus complex. This is when a boy at the age of half-dozen would have sexual desires for his mother and wants to kill his father, in jealousy. The suckling claw was used to having its mothers attention, where the libido is transferred