Freud's Theory Of Religious Origin

Sigmund Freud Both philosophers and psychologists, Austria is also the founder of psychoanalysis, for its original spirit analysis theory to study the origin of the religious is famous in the religious psychology. He has his own research in many fields, but people only know that he was in an important part in psychology, influence, and in the development of religion has not won people's attention. This article is to Freud about the origin of the religious work "totem and taboo" as the clues to illustrate how the origin of religion is in his eyes. He thinks religion originated from the ancient benighted kill father marry mother plot that Oedipus plot, it was his from the human consciousness and behavior on the perspective of the deep motivation of the conclusion. The influence of this theory in academia is also serious, although many of the academic recognition, but at the same time, opposition people are everywhere.In this paper, the system complete from Freud's theories about the origin of religious thought origin, and his religious thought of research main tools psychoanalysis, and about the origin of the religious work "totem and taboo" as the main line to the skeleton of the system combing his religious origin of thoughts. This paper mainly divided into three chapters: the first chapter introduces the religious origins of several main theories of Freud roughly analyzed the background of the origin of religious thought; The second chapter emphatically expounds the Freud study of religious thought important theoretical tool- psychoanalysis and his main religious origins: totem worship originated from kill father married mother of Oedipus plot, and religious expression is totem worship, so religion originated from kill father married mother of Oedipus plot; The last chapter mainly elaborated the later scholars to Freud religious origins thought of evaluation and the thinking of Freud's religious origins in the contemporary historical status and influence.