Surprising, however, is the fact that he concluded that since man wishes God to exist, one must conclude that His existence is a fantasy. This makes little sense. The fact that man wishes God to exist has, after all, no bearing at all on the question whether He really exists or not. He may quite well exist, and simultaneously man may have a great need for His existence. Nowhere did Freud give any justification for his atheism, neither did he understand that he hit on one of the great foundations of Jewish thought.
Jewish tradition teaches that man was created in Gods image.
Whatever this may mean, it definitely includes the fact that God created man in such a way that he, in desperate need to discover himself, would constantly search for Him. Freud, we believe, gave a most original interpretation of this fact. His discovery of the father-image may have uncovered the mechanism through which God created an idea of Himself as the ultimate Father in the human mind. The creation of the utter dependence of a child on his loving parents may very well have been the way through which God built the foundation for man's capacity to believe and trust in Him. Rabbinical tradition suggests that God first created the Torah as a primordial substance after which He created the world accordingly.