ABSTRACT
The gods were created by man from a store of ideas that had two sources: in the childhood of the individual and in his ancestors who refined developed and transformed a child's mode of thought, adapting it to the needs of the masses of mankind. God made man in his own image and he loves the man who fulfils this image of himself. Sigmund Freud never felt the presence of God and he often did not seem to think much of those who did have such an experience. H. A. Williams suggests that because Jesus thinks better of prostitutes than of well-behaved hypocrites, the behaviour is in some sense in order; indeed, Williams is led to think that the theologian's behaviour could be following God's will. He recognizes that analysis challenges religion as a whole and not just its supposedly pathological application by complex-ridden persons.
