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  2. Sigmund Freud's views on religion - Wikipedia

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    Sigmund Freud's views on religion are described in several of his books and essays. Freud considered God as a fantasy, based on the infantile need for a dominant father figure, with religion as a necessity in the development of early civilization to help restrain our violent impulses, that can now be discarded in favor of science and reason. [1]

  3. The Future of an Illusion - Wikipedia

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    Print. ISBN. 978-0-393-00831-9. OCLC. 20479722. The Future of an Illusion (German: Die Zukunft einer Illusion) is a 1927 work by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which Freud discusses religion's origins, development, and its future. He provides a psychoanalysis of religion as a false belief system.

  4. Wish fulfillment - Wikipedia

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    Wish fulfillment is the satisfaction of a desire through an involuntary thought process. It can occur in dreams or in daydreams, in the symptoms of neurosis, or in the hallucinations of psychosis. This satisfaction is often indirect and requires interpretation to recognize. Sigmund Freud coined the term (Wunscherfüllung) in 1900 in an early ...

  5. Irma's injection - Wikipedia

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    Mai 1977. " Irma's injection " is the name given to the dream that Sigmund Freud dreamt on the night of July 23, 1895, and that he subsequently analyzed to arrive at his theory that dreams are wish fulfillments. [1] He described his ideas on dream theory and provided his analysis of the dream, alongside other dreams from case studies, in his ...

  6. Moses and Monotheism - Wikipedia

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    Moses and Monotheism (German: Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion, lit.'The man Moses and the monotheist religion') is a 1939 book about the origins of monotheism written by Sigmund Freud, [ 1 ] the founder of psychoanalysis. It is Freud's final original work and it was completed in the summer of 1939 when Freud was, effectively ...

  7. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    The id, ego, and super-ego are three aspects of the mind Freud believed to comprise a person's personality. Freud believed people are "simply actors in the drama of [their] own minds, pushed by desire, pulled by coincidence. Underneath the surface, our personalities represent the power struggle going on deep within us".

  8. Dream interpretation - Wikipedia

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    According to Freud, the instigation of a dream is often to be found in the events of the day preceding the dream, which he called the "day residue." In very young children, this can be easily seen, as they dream quite straightforwardly of the fulfillment of wishes that were aroused in them the previous day (the "dream day").

  9. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life - Wikipedia

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    The philosopher Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and the psychologist Sonu Shamdasani write that Freud's coupling of an analysis of his dreams and childhood memories had a precedent in Belgian psychologist Joseph Delboeuf's Sleep and Dreams, one of the major themes of which is the capacity of dreams to recall forgotten memories. [19]