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Beyond the Future of an Illusion: Further Reflections on Freud and Religion. Joel Kovel. Pp. 69-87.
In The Future of an Illusion Freud maintained that man created God. Two aspects of religion are patricentral (a protective God modeled after the father) and matricentral (the oceanic experience related to nursing at the breast of the mother). Oceanic experience "lies at or near the phenomenological core of all religions." Freud's explanation of oceanic experience involves a decreased consciousness; mystical