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Fan Wu In his numerous works on religion, written over a span of nearly forty years, Freud produced a number of different but in many ways interconnected theories. Religion is a Universal Obsessional Ritual. Designed to avert imaginary misfortunes and control the unconscious impulses which lead us to feel we are causing them. The rituals attempt to control the outside world and our egoistic and aggressive wishes as well. The ceremonial can take over any everyday activity - dressing and undressing, going to bed, think of the way children are put to sleep at night, or satisfying bodily needs. The structure of obsessive actions, for Freud, concerns compulsions and prohibitions. Freud also observes that the ceremonials are usually done in private. The main difference between obsessional actions and religious rituals is that the latter are full of meaning whereas obsessional actions seem to be meaningless. That is to say, for Freud there is both an external and an internal component to this. There may be fear of something in the outside world, but it is linked to a fear of something inside.
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