This book makes you ponder about where the idea of religion might have actually sprung up from. What made it possible as a concept in human psyche to have claimed such distinctive importance? Freud, as often does he in his other work, ties this need for religiosity to libidal desires; though, to be fair, surprisingly less so in this particular book. Although the conclusions he draws yet are the same---the father figure that is first formed during childhood that is all so protective against the incessant decay and trouble of the world is here once again provided as the cause---the cause for the "religious neurosis."

Religious Undertaking

Freud's Entanglement

While Freud tears apart the supplement people provide to that which eludes science---religion---he fails to provide as substantial a compensation for that which is being supplanted. The sacrilege is for its own sake, alternatives lackluster.