Freud dealt with the problem of religion and psychoanalysis in one of his most profound and brilliant books, The Future of an Illusion. Jung, who was the first psychoanalyst to understand that myth and religious ideas are expressions of profound insights, has dealt with the same topic in the Terry Lectures of 1937, published under the title Psychology and Religion.
If I now attempt to give a brief summary of the position of both psychoanalysts it is with a threefold purpose:
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