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If morality and conscience actually went away there would be no reason to want psychological healing. Why not rather celebrate having gone crazy? I think he actually was against shallow uses of these things. The church has given him more gratuitous catcalls than it has looked to its own knitting... and that is my story and I’m stickin’ to it.

I think he actually was against shallow uses of these things...I think he was too - that's why I was careful to say that he was perceived to have taught - it's been a half century since I read it, but I think it was Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents" where he talks abut the necessary moderation in the Super-ego's influence on the individual's functioning - he thought the conscience had been too strongly developed in too many people in his time, but still felt that conscience was necessary for people to live together in any sort of relationship of mutual benefit - unfortunately the latter part of this got lost in the translation of his teachings into the popular culture - the idea that we shouldn't be too restricted by our consciences and morality is probably just what a lot of first year psych student - college sophomores want to hear, and take away from Freud - my experience in church such as it was years ago wasn't that they were particularly critical of Freud - in fact I can remember some "intellectual" preachers who seemed to weave bits and pieces of his teachings into their sermons with apparent approval - but I certainly agree that most churches have spent too much time finding fault with other institutions and practices and not nearly enough "casting the moat from their own eyes" (I think that's the way it went)......