Counterparts Quote by Sigmund Freud

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

— Sigmund Freud

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings…

— Carl Jung

“I am the deepest of unbelievers. Every neurosis is a religion to its owner and religions is the universal neurosis of mankind. This is…

— Jed Rubenfeld

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes…

— Albert Ellis

I think religion is a neurological disorder.

— Bill Maher

In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of…

— Rollo May

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

— Sigmund Freud

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose…

— Sigmund Freud

All neurotics seek the religious

— Carl Jung