Sigmund Freud gave explanations of the genesis of religion in his various writings. In Totem and Taboo, he applied the idea of the Oedipus complex (involving unresolved sexual feelings of , for example, a son toward his mother and hostility toward his father) and postulated its emergence in primordial stage of human development.In Moses and Monotheism, Freud reconstructed biblical history in accordance with his general theory. His ideas were also developed in The Future of an illusion. When Freud spoke of religion as an illusion, he maintained that it is a fantacy structure from which a man must be free if he is to grow up to maturity.Freud views the idea of god as being a version of the father image, and religious belief as at bottom infantile and neurotic. Authoritarian religion, Freud belived, is disfunctional and alienates man from himself.
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