Religion... comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Freud compares religion to wishful illusions and denial of reality, similar to a confused mental state.
- In plain terms
- Religion is like wishing things were true and ignoring reality, like being confused.
- What can you take from it?
- Religious belief can involve wishing away reality in ways that resemble confusion.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is all faith illusion?
- How do we define reality?
Another view
Calling religion insanity is extreme and dismisses genuine spiritual experience.
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