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ASKOFARE, Sidi. From the name-of-father to the symptom: Lacan and the religion. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2008, vol.8, n.1. ISSN 1808-4281.

Freud didn`t only discover the unconscious and invent psychoanalysis. He also was the analyst and critic of social and cultural institutions, one of which is religion, an object external to himself and to psychoanalysis. In the interconnection of individual subjectivity with group psychology, of obsessiv neurosis with collective rites, he identified at the heart of religion the relation with the father - the love to the Father - and derived its analytic status: religion is an illusion. Lacan went further as he parted from a different point, not the one of religions exteriority in relation to psychoanalysis. He not only perceives, behind Freud`s scientism, a "desire" to save the Father, but he is also aware of the fact that the way theoretical concepts of analyitic experience (Other, subject, transference, the Name-of-the-Father) are built, testify to a religious caracter of the scientific subject and, probably, the psychoanalytic one too. That is the reason why he pushes psychoanalysis in intension "beyond the Oedipus complex" and why he establishes the identification to the sinthome as the term of the experience, only way to achieve a viable and true atheism. The present paper intends to locate, present and examine religion`s specificity in Lacan`s teachings, as well as clarify its analytic consequences

Palavras-chave : Religion; Other; Name-of-the-Father; Supposed subject of Knowing; Sinthome; Atheism.

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