Christian Congregation

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    “Freudianism is much more nearly a religion than a science, inasmuch as the relation between analyst and patient has a great deal in common with that between priest and communicant at confessional, and such ideas as the Oedipus complex, the superego, the libido, and the id exert an effect upon the converted which is almost identical with what flows to the devout Christian from godhead, trinity, grace, and immortality.”
    —Robert Nisbet (b. 1913)

    “re-enact at the vestry-glass
    Each pulpit gesture in deft dumb-show
    That had moved the congregation so.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)