Challenge: construct a religion based on Freudian psychology

Sigmund Freud's theories on psychology and psychoanalysis includes many assertions which are unprovable. It's well and good that his theories came about at a time when people were looking for scientific answers to explain the mind. If his theories had came about in much earlier times before science was widely accepted almost as an article of faith, they would probably never be accepted and quickly forgotten.

Unless of course psychology is dressed up as a religion. Sometimes I wonder if the founders of our more popular religions were but proto-sociologists promoting sound moral principles in a supernatural package for the better acceptance of backward ancient peoples.

Your challenge is to create a new religion built on Freudian theories with the aim of producing a moral and psychologically well adjusted society, i.e. no guilt-ridden flagellators please. You may chose any time-period or part of the world as your POD. Although since so many of Freudian "complexes" were named after mythological Greek characters, it might be convinient to start off in the Western world, in an age after the ancient Greeks.
 
I usually dislike it when someone responds to a thread by pooh-poohing any alternate possibilities, but this strikes me as a complete non-starter.

Any "Freudian" religion, if it included a belief in supernatural beings, would have to ignore pretty much everything Freud actually wrote about religion. Freud thought faith in supernatural beings, especially active gods to whom humans could pray and get results, was nothing but wishful thinking based on childish impulses.

Religion and psychology have established a sort of truce over generations as people of religious faith accept certain portions of psychological research and argument-- not as "believers" in "Freudianism" add supernatural beings to the roster.
 

~The Doctor~

Sigmund Freud's theories on psychology and psychoanalysis includes many assertions which are unprovable. It's well and good that his theories came about at a time when people were looking for scientific answers to explain the mind. If his theories had came about in much earlier times before science was widely accepted almost as an article of faith, they would probably never be accepted and quickly forgotten.

Unless of course psychology is dressed up as a religion. Sometimes I wonder if the founders of our more popular religions were but proto-sociologists promoting sound moral principles in a supernatural package for the better acceptance of backward ancient peoples.

Your challenge is to create a new religion built on Freudian theories with the aim of producing a moral and psychologically well adjusted society, i.e. no guilt-ridden flagellators please. You may chose any time-period or part of the world as your POD. Although since so many of Freudian "complexes" were named after mythological Greek characters, it might be convinient to start off in the Western world, in an age after the ancient Greeks.

Freudian Scientologists.:cool:
 
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