• The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

    Sigmund Freud: The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.
    Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”