- Groups of people, one dominant male, had authority over the group and had claim to all the females.
- Over time resentment of younger males grew, they all grouped together and killed the dominant male.
- This helps to show why religion is universal, as it shows the Oedipus complex at a historical level, not just as personal trauma.
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in line with our instinctual desires" - (S.F, new introductory lectures on psychoanalysis)
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