psychoanalysis is concerned with nothing if not the successful psychoemotional transition of the human organism from infancy through childhood to adulthood and old age. Failures of key transitional tests bespeak neurosis, and Campbell quotes Freud's statement that all sexual pathology "is rightly to be regarded as an inhibition in development" (7). Sexuality and religiosity in human experience may or may not be directly linked in external enactment of a life, but these two elements share significance in contemplation of life's purpose--the one because of its connection to pleasure and reproduction and the other because of its connection to the meaning of existence. In that regard, Freud's preoccupation with sexual instinct and its affinity with the pleasure principle is almost a commonplace of the psychoanalytic literature, but no less significant and undoubtedly definitive is Freud's statement that "only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls
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