Historical aspect of the problem of religious consciousness repression in the psychoanalytic doctrine of Z. Freud

After the historiographical research reviewing the criticism of the psychoanalytical movement, the authors hypothesize that the psychoanalytic doctrine of Freud is nothing but an integral part of the Masonic project, which aims at the repression of the religious consciousness. Z. Freud can rightly be called a founder of the atheism in the psychological science. His four theses about the religion became dogmas for atheistic part of humankind. Among them, the assertion that the religion, provoking fear in people, is more a universal human neurosis, which can be treated by the psychoanalysis; justification of the idea of God as a result of the Oedipus complex with an aim to confront the superpower of the nature; the idea of the illusory nature of the religion (or even its similarity to the delusions in psychiatry) because of its unprovability; the demand for the complete expulsion of the religious ideas from the European culture. However, in the late 20 th century the President of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Otto Kernberg stated the need to review the position of Freud by recognizing religiousness as one of the key human needs. Freud’s theses were partially adopted in the field of medicine and psychology, for instance, existence in the vocabulary of those sciences of the concept of “god complex", overcoming of which is possible during psychoanalytic sessions. Numerous works of domestic and foreign scholars argue the destructive socio-psychological meaning of the anti-Christian manifestations in the psychoanalytic teachings of Freud. For example, psychological danger of the psychoanalysis has been scientifically proven by H. Eysenck and P. Medawar, while Russian scientists and Orthodox leaders consider the psychoanalysis to be an occult theory with elements of Satanism. As a research result it is concluded that there is a phenomenon that can be described as the atheistic neurosis (in opposition to the religious neurosis of Freud), which led to a number of cultural and historical catastrophes of the 20 th century.