Superstition

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Freudian Dictionary

The phenomena of superstition furnish another indication of the unconscious motivation in chance and faulty actions.[1]

Because the superstitious person knows nothing of the motivation of his own accidental actions, and because the fact of this motivation strives for a place in his recognition, he is compelled to dispose of them by displacing them into the outer world. As a matter of fact, I believe that a large portion of the mythological conception of the world which reaches far into the most modern religions, is nothing but psychology projected to the outer world.[2]