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Religious feeling derives from a « purified maternal ». To be maintained, this religious feeling must deny the mother’s phallic and sexual dimension, which is nevertheless present in the background of experiences of elation and mystical experiences, secret forms of worship that result from a blissful inversion of the feeling of distress. On the individual level, the transition from the maternal to the paternal must be considered primarily as the transition of an organisation subjected to a phallic mother imago to a system in which each parent plays a specific role that leads to the development of the Œdipus complex.