ABSTRACT
Early Christians expected Jesus to return to Earth from heaven in the near future, and were disillusioned when the end of the world failed to materialize. This led Paul to warn of a "final enemy" who would be slain when Jesus made his return. Freud, of course, had good reasons to see himself as an Anti-christ, a political term aimed at secessionists and later applied to any entity denying Christian beliefs. In fact, Freud was deconstructing the doctrine of the Resurrection of the Flesh, to trace it back to the erection of the male organ, as his theoretical fantasy about Adonis and his positing of the Lord as the penis suggests. A central symptom of Freud's neurosis was his anxiety and fear of traveling by train. Freud's dream of an "open-air closet" thus anticipated his upcoming trip to the fair land of Italy.
