According to James, without religious ideas (whatever their origin) there is no proper reasoning for difficult moral choices, or hardships, and therefore, the quality of human life diminishes. ... "It is an enormous relief to the individual psyche if the conflicts of its childhood arising from the father-complex - conflicts which are never wholly overcome - are removed from it and brought to a solution which is universally accepted." (212) An illusion is an error made by humans in terms of wish fulfilment and borders on the line of psychotic delusions. ...

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