Dr. Mamo Othman University of Duhok pirmamo@gmail.com In his psychoanalytic perspective, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) viewed religion as the unconscious mind’s need for wish fulfillment. Freud believed that people choose to trust in God because they need to...
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Dr. Mamo Othman University of Duhok pirmamo@gmail.com In his psychoanalytic perspective, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) viewed religion as the unconscious mind’s need for wish fulfillment. Freud believed that people choose to trust in God because they need to feel secure and absolve themselves of their own guilt. According to Freud God represents a powerful father-figure. Religion is not only about faith in God, but also encompasses the order and disci- pline of life. Religion involves human relationships with himself, with the World and in many cases with all living beings. The Abrahamic religions went in detail about the minutes of every day’s life. The main dogma of those religions is that they are regarded to be a unified system of beliefs and practices that are scared, which is something that is dedicated to the service of God, and in all cases, fixed and unchangeable, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden. Those institutions were moral communities that are called Synagogue or
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