Abstract

"In important respects the metapsychology of religion by Freud is simply a continuation of the theory of William James." James attaches importance to the sub-conscious, which assumes two fold character, a psychological hypothesis and a speculative concept. Freud has gone beyond James in stressing the biological side, in challenging utility of a belief in the existence of God and in imagining that mankind in the distant future, will be divested of its religious illusion.