[Anima Mundi]

Translation: religion is to civilization as adolescence is to indivdual development. It is a necessary stage civilization goes through to get from immaturity to adulthood. Immaturity being tribal and superstitious and maturity being rationality?

I don’t agree with Freud if the sense of what he is saying is something like the above. Religion and rationalty are wrapped around one another like strands of DNA and are not either/or propositions, rather they enhance and play off of one another, each necessary for the existence of the other.

[SeekAndFind]

religion is to civilization as adolescence is to indivdual development

That is really a variation of the Darwinian view APPLIED to societal development. Just as Men progressed from Apes, society will progress after they have shed all delusions of religious belief.

Here is a Historical Source

“Initially a Viennese medical doctor, Freud was trained in neurology, and he originally drew inspiration from the work of Charles Darwin which explained behavior in evolutionary terms.”

“Freud’s key interest however was in the workings of the brain, with his perspective deriving from Darwin’s work on evolution. Thus Freud started out with the belief that physiology and evolution determined behavior.”