Future Of An Illusion

In Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud’s thesis on religion is that he presents religion as an illusion, and as a human neurosis. “It is securely based on the psychological discovery that mas is equipped with most varied instinctual dispositions, whose ultimate course is determined by the experiences of early childhood” (9 Freud). Freud, an aggressive atheist, claims that religion is an idea that humans have created. Humans create this idea as a way of dealing with the powers of nature that can harm us greatly. According to Freud, religion is in the mind and is nothing more than our way of dealing with the Oedipal Complex, feelings of helplessness, which carry on from childhood into adulthood. Freud claims the human race look up to God as