ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud, by the very act of making God a subject of metapsychological deconstruction, took such a resolutely atheistic position. His pupils and followers adhered "religiously" to the arguments and declarations he made in The Future of Illusion and later in Civilization and Its Discontents. Scientific positivism of the early twentieth century provided a receptive crucible for Freud's debunking of God. Freud's God is sculpted in human terms. Bion's God is painted in the watercolour of wisdom. Freud's God is that of Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. Bion's God represents Advaitic Vedantism, which is an antecedent of the modern Hinduism and Zen Buddhism. Bion's God sings through the murmur of the wind and floats on the waves of rivers and oceans. Even more interesting is that while neither Freud nor Bion mention woman/mother in connection with the origins of God, the foundation of their ideas seems to be in their early mothering experience and its rupture.
