The Origins Of Religion by Sigmund Freud
It argues that religion arises from unconscious wish-fulfillment rooted in infancy and the human need for a protective father figure, projected outward as gods; mythic accounts of a primal patricide and the resulting guilt, preserved in totemic systems, generate rites, taboos and an internalized moral authority (the superego). Religion thus consolingly tames fear, helplessness and death and strengthens social cohesion, but it is ultimately an illusion born of psychological conflict that obstructs full, rational maturity and the honest confrontation of human drives and reality.
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