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- Type of event: Online
- Date: 22nd & 23rd July
- Time: 1.30pm-5pm
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- Cost: £40-45
- Booking instructions: Psychoanalysis and Religion Tickets, Thu 22 Jul 2021 at 13:30 | Eventbrite
Freud is famous for portraying religion as a collective neurosis of mankind: religious beliefs give expression to wish-fulfilling illusions serving the immature emotional needs of the child living on within the adult. Such illusions – he sternly maintains – should be cast aside and replaced by ideas corresponding to reality – namely, the materialistic world view that emerges gradually but inescapably from the cumulative process of scientific observation.