Abstract

LOPES, Anchyses Jobim. A concise summa of practical atheology: psychoanalysis and religion. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2008, n.31, pp. 17-28. ISSN 0100-3437.

Freud’s atheism, materialism and criticism of religion. The importance of these ideas to understand key concepts as: instinct, infantile sexuality, ego ideal and repression. The psychoanalytical method as extension of socratical maieutics, opposite to dogma and sacred text. The method as based on an atheist ethic: lack, finitude and difference. Pscyhoanalysis and the symbolical, religion and the imaginary. Religious uses of hypnosis and ego ideal.

Keywords : Freuds atheism; Psycho-analytical ethics; Imaginary; Father-figure; Ego ideal.

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