Some Aspects of Sociology and their Psychiatrical Application

Extract

The parallel between the phantasies and delusions of the individual and the myths and religious beliefs of the race is very close and extensive. In both cases we can trace the same “scotomata” to reality, the same logical inconsistency, and the same attempts to compensate for these defects (which of course are not acknowledged as such) by rationalization, by mystical interpretations, by appeals to blind faith, and by the denial of the capacity of human understanding to criticize or even to comprehend these “mysteries.”