Abstract

BRUNO, Cássia A. N. Barreto. Mal-estar na civilização: vamos falar de religião?Civilization and it's discontent: let's talk about religion?. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2018, vol.40, n.66, pp. 141-148. ISSN 0101-3106.

How to talk about religion in the present times? What is the relationship between religion and psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is a discipline that has scientific methodological rigor and religion has the opposite, the belief. Religion seeks contact with a higher entity, unattainable outside the self. Psychoanalysis seeks contact with something infinite, unattainable within the self. If the self is part of an infinite unconscious, much larger than the conscious, the point in psychoanalysis is to tune into that infinite unconscious, the truth of each of us. This idea that was already in Freud, has been quite developed in recent years. Both religion and psychoanalysis have a common territory: the connection of the human being to something greater, nature (eastern religions), God father (western) and true self in psychoanalysis. Both privilege intuition (through projective identification in psychoanalysis) and meditation in religion, with the aim of reaching deep areas of the mind that touch the mysterious infinity

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Religion; Ego; Id.

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