Tag: Oedipus complex

  • Freudian Words of the Day 22Feb 2014 ~ Oedipus Complex

    “Religion is the universal obsessional neurosis of mankind; like the obsessional neurosis of children, arouse out of the Oedipus complex, out of the relation to the father… [It is] a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.” “The God–Creator is openly called father. Psychoanalysis […]