Question

Freud held that religion was a "universal obsessional neurosis of humanity." What did he mean by this? How is it related to the theme of his writing "Civilization and its Discontents?

Answer 1

According to Freud- religion was a "universal obsessional neurosis of humanity". It means the religion is something where you are blindly following a particular concept in a particular way and following the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity belongs to unilateral ideas that are developed on the basis of the attitude which is optionally based on the creativity and the development of thoughts for a particular belief.
In society, religion is only a topic where the human ideology surrenders in front of the human believing that is an ongoing process in the culture and the structural framework of the society.
Religion is not a word it is a stream of thinking and a wave of human creation, therefore, the various believing work on the difference of the religious ideology and sometime it will become a discontent that is relevant and irrelevant on the same time in the different perspectives of the human behaviour, therefore, there are the differences in the religious thoughts and the believing of the different religions that's why the more focused in the religious attitude is a simple spreading of spiritual Ideas given by some persons and without consulting and believing on the correct thoughts the humanity is working on the attitude of following of principle given by somebody or a particular person it depends on the literature available in the society