Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.


A Philosophy of Life (Lecture 35) - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932)


Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us...

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us...

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us...

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us...