This book can be considered as a continuation of thoughts expressed in Man for Himself, an inquiry into the psychology of ethics. Ethics and religion are closely interrelated and therefore there is some overlapping. But I have tried in this book to focus on the problem of religion while in Man for Himself the emphasis is entirely on ethics. The views expressed in these chapters are in no sense representative of 'psychoanalysis.' There are psychoanalysts who are practicing religionists as well as others who consider the interest in religion a symptom of unsolved emotional conflicts. The position taken in this book differs from both and is, at most, representative of the thinking of a third group of psychoanalysts.