ABSTRACT
In comparing sigmund Freud's and C. G. Jung's attitude to religion, Erich Fromm says that the core values of the great religions are the pursuit of truth, of freedom, and of brotherly love, and that these values were central for Buddhism, Christianity and Hinduism. For Fromm, Freud's attitude to religion is much more congenial than Jung's. His main critique of Jung is that he enshrines submission to authority as the core religious attitude, which for Fromm is anathema. Just as Fromm distinguishes between authoritarian and humanistic religion, so also he distinguishes between a psychoanalysis which aims at social adjustment and that which aims at the cure of soul. The lacuna in Fromm's thinking is reflected in his definition of religion: 'Any system of thought and action shared by a group which gives the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion.'.
