Personal Experience Where there is no worship of the supreme, it inevitably falls into the mundane.

[Two-jay]

The common form of religion is, according to Freud:

A system of doctrines and promises which on the one hand explains to him
the riddles of this world with enviable completeness, and, on the other,
assures him that a careful Providence will watch over his life and will com-
pensate him in a future existence for any frustrations he suffers here. The
common man cannot imagine this Providence otherwise than in the figure
of an enormously exalted father. Only such a being can understand the
needs of the children of men and be softened by their prayers and placated
by the signs of their remorse. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so
foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is
painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise
above this view of life. ​

It is not surprise that as my biological austitic conditioning dictates, the consolation and promises offered by the christian god were not enough to convince an analytically-inclined mind to suspend evidence to favor belief. So I naturally continued on with life until illness struck me. It really offered me a look into how fragile my psychic structure is given that I have been battling with mommy issues. What is the connection here between the absence of a belief in god and mommy issues? A recipe for disaster.

As theorized by Freud, we have "the Id"; the primitive, instinctual, and entirely unconscious part of the human psyche, driven by the pleasure principle to seek immediate gratification of basic urges and desires. In my view of the Id, I'd say that it is the most instinctual part of the human psyche, and religion specifically, satisfies various of its needs by the use of the mechanism of projection, because it is not surprise that in the vast majority of religious figures, people project the archetype of father and mother, with the only difference being that they are elevated to a divine level. They satisfy the need for validation, love, protection, and much more. Clearly, these are the needs most deeply rooted in the survival of the organism.

Given that I have found myself in situations of great pain, which in turn imply a direct threat to my survival, it is no surprise that this mechanism is transferred to completely normal women, elevating them to goddesses and saviors, which is clearly the beginning of that psychic neurosis referred to by many in these forums as limerence. Basically, a transfer occurs caused by pain, because the Id seeks to satisfy a primal need for protection and love, but since there is no divine female figure available, it is normal for the mind to look for shortcuts, and in this case, the projection mechanism is transferred to normal women.​

 

[newsincerity]

understanding care and affection from motherly figure
if you haven't experienced that at least once you likely believe life is hell and nothing can change your mind

it's weird that you deified women tho
I hated women

 

[Two-jay]

understanding care and affection from motherly figure
if you haven't experienced that at least once you likely believe life is hell and nothing can change your mind

it's weird that you deified women tho
I hated women

Trauma makes the psyche behave in strange ways. Honestly, one of the most perplexing things about the mind, is that it can unconsciously try to recreate a past trauma. Weird.