Freud & Religion

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This study will examine Sigmund Freud's relationship with his own religion, Judaism. The study will focus on the contradictory nature of Freud's attitude toward his own Jewishness, and will consider the context of his attitude toward religion in general in terms of the light that such a general attitude might shed on his Jewishness.
Freeman writes first that Freud's Jewishness had much to do with his having discovered psychoanalysis in the first place. He quotes Ernest Jones who declared that "It is doubtful if without certain traits inherited from his Jewish ancestry Freud would have been able to accomplish the work he did. I think here of a peculiar native shrewdness, a skeptical attitude toward illusion and deception, and a determined courage that made him impervious to hostile public opinion and the contumely of his professional (...)"

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