Psicanálise e religião: uma análise epistemológica.

Abstract

It is known that Freud produced important theses on the subject-society relationship. Lacan, the main successor to the Freudian theory, continued to this discussion advocating the participation of the religious phenomenon in the psychic constitution of the subject. The objective of this article is to think the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion by making a reading both Freud and Lacan. We intend to discuss, from the epistemological point of view, how this relationship is nowadays. For Freud, religion is an illusion. For Lacan, it is a truth which will triumph. Despite their different views on religion’s role to psychoanalysis, both have something in common: they operate with the 'rest' overlooked by scientific knowledge. Science is concerned only with the objectifiable, while psychoanalysis and religion deal with the truth. However, the path that psychoanalysis and religion will tread with the truth is not the same: psychoanalysis operates with the truth as cause, religion at all costs tries to block this opening. Keywords: Psychoanalysis. Religion. Epistemology.