ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856, at Freiberg. His first major work was The Interpretation of Dream. After World War I, he re-examined and revised the theoretical foundations of psychoanalysis in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and The Ego and the Id; and he offered his reflections on religion and civilization in The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and Its Discontent. Religion consists of certain dogmas, assertions about facts and conditions of external reality. Critics persist in calling "deeply religious" a person who confesses to a sense of man's insignificance and impotence in face of the universe. The people know approximately at what periods and by what sort of men religious doctrines were formed. If the people now learn from what motives this happened, our attitude to the problem of religion will suffer an appreciable change.
