ABSTRACT
The crucial issue is that the psychoanalyst believes that the good lies in directing attention towards the inner actions of different parts of the self. The psychoanalyst would say that what the patient had done was right. It is an inherent belief of psychoanalysis that to own the different parts of ourselves is a good thing in itself. A religion, then, is an institution whose goal is the good. The way the good is conceptualized differs in primitive religion and mature religion. Mature religion always originates either in a single known founder such as the Buddha or Jesus, or through a series of teachers increasingly deeper in their spirituality, as in Judaism or Hinduism. A person is religious who is a member of one of the known religions. In traditional religion, the spiritual person detaches himself from sexual and erotic ties.
