Religion is illusion, and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with… — Sigmund Freud
Religion is illusion, and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
In the original German
Die Religion Illusion ist und ihre Stärke aus dem Entgegenkommen gegen unsere Triebwunschregungen bezieht.
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis · 1933
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Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 35. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 35.
