Religion is illusion, and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Die Religion Illusion ist und ihre Stärke aus dem Entgegenkommen gegen unsere Triebwunschregungen bezieht.

Sigmund Freud

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Religion

Author

Sigmund Freud

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New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Psychologist Writer

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Austria Europe

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Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 35. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 35.

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The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

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