Critical analysis of views on the religion of Sigmund Freud. Part 1
The article gives a critical analysis of Sigmund Freud’s hypotheses concerning the origins of religious beliefs in the human society. In the first part of the given research the author presents a summary of the structural foundations of the theory of psychoanalysis itself, highlights destructive ideological understanding of human nature, introduced by this theory, and also deals with Sigmund Freud’s comparative analysis of compulsion neurosis and religious rites.