ABSTRACT
Religious words sparked conflict and aggression in those whose struggle had been to attain selfhood through separation from religious entrapment. Coming from different religious and non-religious backgrounds people struggled to articulate their most precious intimations about life, but found them sounding strangely insubstantial. Analytic thinking has long been preoccupied with the subject of religion and there are now finely nuanced analytic studies which go way beyond Sigmund Freud’s ground-breaking attempts to get a handle on this puzzling phenomenon. The House of Prayer helped to define a religious “space” in which the authors two god complexes could function side by side. Apart from C. G. Jung and some of his followers, depth psychologists have been strangely reluctant to follow up even the tentative suggestions made by Freud in his paper on “Dreams and occultism”, in which he gave his opinion that “the scales weigh in favour of thought-transference”.
