Religiousness – Between Defence Mechanism and Consciousness

According to Sigmund Freud, the emergence of Judaism should be associated with the murder of Moses, which the Hebrews allegedly committed against their leader. This thesis, which the psychoanalyst takes over from Ernst Sellin, became the basis for his reflections on trauma, which is the source of religious neurosis experienced by man. This paper attempts to show that the basis of neuroses related to religiousness should not be seen in the traumatic events related to the time of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, as Freud wanted, but in the individual approach of a person to religion and in the internal conflicts he or she experiences.