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KYRILLOS NETO, Fuad  e  MACHADO, Rodolfo Rodrigues. Religiosity and Politics in the Brazilian Secularized Society: A Psychoanalytic Reading. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.1, pp.322-341.  Epub 17-Maio-2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.66487.

The interface between religious involvement and political space in our society, considering its long historical relationship, has been gaining attention as a matter of debate in our contemporaneity. In the present article, through theoretical research, we seek to investigate how the new contours of religious involvement within the process of secularization might have also unfolded new forms of relationship between politics and religion. In order to do so, we will first introduce Freud’s conception of the motivations that lead to religious involvement. We will also present the reformulations in Lacan’s work on the subject, as well as other authors’ contributions, trying to focus on the point where both political and religious discourse meet. Next, we will review some historical background on Brazilian religion and politics relation and how this debate is set on the contemporaneity. Finally, we will propose a reflection, with the conceptual system of psychoanalysis, on the secularization process’ influence in the social conjecture exposed, using as a paradigmatic example the Prosperity Theology. In this sense, we aim to point out how some aspects of secularization could possibly provide a reorganization of the relationship established between religion and politics in Brazilian contemporaneity.

Palavras-chave : religion; politics; psychoanalysis; metapsychology of religion; secularization..

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