Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud is known to be one of the most prominent scholars on research and thoughts regarding human nature. Freud is acknowledged for establishing out of the box theories with dominant concepts that are backed up by good evidence. Freud’s arguments are quite convincing, but very controversial. When thoughts get controversial, a loss of strength for an argument occurs. Freud feels that religion is a psychological anguish and suffering. (Webster, 2003) For Freud, religion attempts to influence individuals psychologically in order to enhance wish fulfillment, infantile sexuality, Oedipal Complex, and dominating humanity all over the world. (Webster, 2003) Sigmund Freud referred himself as a scientist, his main work surrounded psychology. (Webster, 2003) Science and Religion are completely different, from their beliefs to their thoughts; they can never come together as one. Thus, showing that on the grounds of accuracy, Freud’s thoughts on religious ideas as wish fulfillment cannot be accepted. Freud claims that religious ideas are illusions and fulfillments of infantile wishes, in my opinion, he is incorrect, religion allows us to gain support and knowledge, self-actualize, and give us the ability to understand the world we live in.

The notions of religious ideas are the philosophies of facts concerning outer and inner realities. (Freud, 1917) It tells someone things they never knew along with aiding to their existing beliefs. (Freud, 1917) In my opinion, I think that religion and religious ideas are very scared to people personally, it gives an outline of how the world we live in functions. In regards to explaining how our universe operates, I believe that religion has a more secure argument than any other fields. Fr...

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...As I have proved that concepts within religion were able to provide information about the past such as the formation of the universe all the way to the after-life. Centuries before science as it was coming up, religion was giving answers to questions that science was not even prepared to ask. Religious ideas are not wish fulfillment for individuals, but in fact a sacred connection to the Supreme Being. Not being able to see something does not necessarily mean it does not exist.

Work Cited

Sigmund, F. (1917). The Future of an Illusion. 12th ed. New York: Penguin Books. 206-215 p.

Freud, S. & Brill, A. A. (1995). The basic writings of Sigmund Freud. New York: Modern Library.

Storr, A. (2001). Freud. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Trupp, M. S. (2000). On Freud. Australia: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.

Webster, R. (2003). Freud. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.