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God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father. — Sigmund Freud

Sociology

God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

In the original German

Gott im Grunde nichts anderes ist als ein erhöhter Vater.

Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo · 1913
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1913
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Sigmund Freud
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Freud, Sigmund. Totem und Tabu Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker [Totem and Taboo Some Similarities in the Soul Life of the Wild and the Neurotic]. Beacon Press, 1913, ch. 4, sect. 6. Originally published in Imago, c. 1912.

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