Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud were two eminent psychoanalysts with distinct attitudes and approaches towards religion. They had many theories in common at some point in their lives and had a deep friendship. Indeed, Jung was supposed to be Freud's successor in his position as president of the International Psychoanalytic Association. However, Jung established several new theories and differences with Freud. After years of friendship the two separated in 1913. There were three main areas of religion on which Jung and Freud disagreed. Jung argued that religion was, in fact, very beneficial to society, unlike Freud, who was totally against religion. Jung believed that religion was a natural expression of the collective unconscious while Freud believed it was a collective neurosis. Overall, Jung thought that religiosity was a way to aid the individuation process. On the contrary, Freud believed that this attenuated the feelings of hostility and guilt that continue to dominate the relationship with the father figure until he is replaced by "God" as the surrogate father. Thus making religion an obsessive-compulsive neurosis aimed at avoiding death. I will use Christianity as a basis to show the relationship of Jung and Freud's theories to religion, as Christianity has the largest following in the world. Carl Jung had a very broad understanding of religion, proposing concepts such as the collective unconscious and the collective unconscious. archetypes and the relationship they have with the development of individuation, the process by which the human being or conscious person "harmonises" their psyche (mind). There was a three-level system in Jung's concept of the psyche. These involved personal conscience; the personal unconscious... at the center of the card... religion tunes into the sense of union that the child is believed to have with the mother. The early loss of ego limits is replicated in the sense of the supreme in adult life. This theory suggests a state of idyllic union with a loving and indulgent parent; which in religion can be seen as "God". Freud argues that religion is a mass misunderstanding or a paranoid wish fulfillment. He says that religious people turn away from reality and put the reality of desires in its place and the person uses magical thinking. In a certain sense this brings religion closer to science. Freud had often said that paranoid delusions are like philosophical systems or scientific theories: they all try to make sense of the world and our place in it. He also states that religion is a way to keep groups of people together as there are emotional ties that bind them together.