Sigmund Freud
The cruel, cold and brutal world itself is hard to bear for human, nature threatens us with all the natural disasters: Earthquake, volcano, flood and storm. These forces nature rise up against human cruelly. Humans see their own weakness and helplessness. So human create civilization in order to protect us to against the cruel nature. To be a part of the society, we need to restrict ourselves and to follow its rules. We need to restrain our instincts, to give it up and compensate our desire with other satisfaction. Yet, these sacrifices and comforts, civilization can never fully protect us when we face of disease and death. In front of the fate of disease and death, human are helpless. No matter how well is the civilization developed. It will come up with death at the end.
A well-known psychologist, Sigmund Freud sees that it is hard for all of us to accept the truth of death. Human may try to observe and imagine that there are beings around in our society, so human might come up an idea that death itself may not is something that spontaneous, the evil and sin might course the death. Under all these assumptions, the fate of disease and death seems to have an answer and human can accept the fate of death. Humans start to face and believe things as we did in the days of our childhood. We want a father to reassure us from the danger in our world. Freud says, we project an external world father, who can scatter the terror of nature disaster, can reward us after life from accepting the restriction from civilization. The character of a father, human turns him into God.
Human projected God with a divine origin elevated human society and were extended to nature and universe. Human craves to go back to their childhood, need a father's protection to against the dangers of nature, the fate of death and the harmless that terrorize him from human society itself. In the end, all goods are rewarded and all the evils...
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