In this article, I argue that Freud’s interest in extraordinary cultural phenomena such as religion and art can be understood from the idea that psychoanalysis is fundamentally a pathoanalysis of human existence. In his earlier writings on hysteria and the theory of sexuality, Freud points out that the study of the psychopathologies is the best and maybe only way to understand the psychic life of human beings and consequently of a specific group of cultural products that cannot only be explained in functional terms. It is also argued, however, that Freud never fully explored to the full potential of this pathoanalytic approach to cultural phenomena, because of the increasing domination of the Oedipus complex and a developmental perspective in his theories. In the final section of this article, the potential of a pathoanalysis of religion is further explored and offered as a promising field of research.

在本文中，我认为弗洛伊德对宗教和艺术等非凡文化现象的兴趣可以从精神分析从根本上是对人类存在的病态分析这一观点来理解。在他早期关于歇斯底里症和性理论的著作中，弗洛伊德指出，对精神病理学的研究是理解人类精神生活的最好的，也许是唯一的方式，因此也可以理解一组特定的文化产品，而这些文化产品不能仅仅被解释在功能方面。然而，也有人认为，弗洛伊德从未充分探索过这种对文化现象的病态分析方法的全部潜力，因为俄狄浦斯情结的主导地位越来越高，而且他的理论中的发展观点。在本文的最后部分，