ABSTRACT
A man comes to a psychoanalyst because he has a drinking problem. One of the principles of psychoanalysis is that the ways a person acts emotionally in intimate relationships can be charted according to identifiable pathways. Although psychoanalysis is a professional relationship, it is nevertheless a relationship of extreme intimacy, and therefore the same identifiable pattern of relating is repeated in the patient's relationship to the analyst. The cultic aspect of religion is concerned with pleasing God or pleasing gods. Natural religion is concerned with the welfare of man; it is concerned with how man should live. Sigmund Freud was very anxious that psychoanalysis should be clearly differentiated from revealed religion. For this reason, he insisted that psychoanalysis is a natural science. A revealed religion is based on the belief that God revealed himself and his Law to man.
