"If I cannot sway the Gods above, then I will stir up the underworld!" The great Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) spoke these words in 'Interpretation of Dreams.' Freud argued that religion derives from the unconscious and that human sexual impulses were closely related to religion. Sigmund Freud offers the strongest argument against religion, claiming that religion was both a creation of the human mind and a obsessional neurosis. Religion partly developed from Animism. Animism is when the disorderly nature of the world is attributed to the behaviour spirits, and that this could be controlled by ...
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