Gabrielle C. Brumfield
February 18, 2021
Psychology 420
Professor Charles Rife
When we think of an enemy, what can we say an enemy is and what is as a definition? The
definition of Enemy according to the dictionary is a person who is actively opposed or
hostile to someone or something. Many times, the enemy when it comes to the Christian
way of life, we find that most Christians find that psychology is an enemy but why? We
find ourselves questioning many of the words that are told to us opposed to the life of a
Christian and what is expected of us in this world. Who do most Christians blame for the
status that has been found to be the reason for the opposition of the feeling that they have
for psychology, Freud but why would he be someone that people find to be the enemy?
Christians who are opposed to psychology often single out Sigmund Freud as the central
figure of psychology and as the epitome of its antireligious bent, Freud is an enigmatic
and complicated figure. As the recipient of anti-Semitic prejudice, and as a member of an
ethnic group long persecuted by Christians, “he was bound to feel prejudiced against
Christianity in general, the religion that had inflicted such untold suffering on his people
