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A brief summary on the psychoanalytic conception of religion

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A brief summary on the psychoanalytic conception of religion

The psychoanalytic perspectives have been put forward by Sigmund Freud. The views provided by Sigmund Freud, have been mentioned in a number of areas. According to Freud, the idea of god is more of an illusion. This illusion is on the basis of the need that the infant has in which he would be looking of a powerful figure, in the form of the father. Freud says that she. A person has religion as the basis, it would help in restraining of the impulses, especially the violent impulse that a person has, during the earlier ages of development, when the idea of impulse control has not absorbed in the children and they have not yet learnt the idea of impulse control. This helps in a civilisation development and an order. Now, the idea of religion is beginning to be replaced by the ideas of reason as well as science.