Sigmund Freud Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices In a prefatory note to the Hebrew translation of Totem and Taboo (1930) Freud describes himself as “an author who is ignorant of the language of holy writ, who is completely estranged from the religion of his fathers-as well as from every other religion” but who remains “in his essential nature a Jew and who has no desire to alter that nature”. In An Autobiographical Study, originally published in 1925, Freud recounts that “My parents were Jews, and I have remained a Jew myself.” Familiarity with Bible stories, from an age even before he learned to read, had “an enduring effect on the direction of my interest.” In 1873, upon attending the University at Vienna, he first encountered antisemitism: “I found that I was expected to feel myself inferior and an alien because I was a Jew.” See also: Criticism of Religion Freud’s religious background Freud regarded God as an illusion, based on the infantile need for a powerful father figure religion, necessary to help us restrain violent impulses earlier in the development of civilization, can now be set aside in favor of reason and science. Sigmund Freud’s views on religion are described in several of his books and essays. Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices.
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