Abstract

PEREIRA, Kylmer Sebastian de Carvalho  and  CHAVES, Wilson Camilo. Freud and religion: the illusion that tells a historical truth. Tempo psicanal. [online]. 2016, vol.48, n.1, pp. 112-127. ISSN 0101-4838.

This work intends to search Freud's texts for instances about religion and its psychic and historical consequences to man, reflecting about Freud's theorizations about the question of religiosity. Totem and taboo presents, among other themes, a possible origin to the religious sentiment and its relation with the primal father's murder. Future of an illusion brings harsh criticism on religious thought, pointing it as an illusion, held together by some of the deepest desires of humanity. In Civilization and its discontents, Freud recognizes the role of religion as an answer to despair, and points this fact as its origin. Moses and monotheism shows how religion reveals a long forgotten knowledge about the Jewish people, and in a sense, about all mankind. We conclude that, thorough his work, Freud builds and reshapes conceptions about religiosity, finally recognizing the importance of religion to intellectual development and superation of the despair.

Keywords : Freud; religion; psychoanalysis.

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