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This article strives to retrace Lacan’s analysis of the question of God according to an approach that constantly revisits his main theoretical developments. In an eminently paradoxical perspective, these developments consider the possibility and the impossibility of atheism with respect to unconscious knowledge and to the psychoanalytical experience of it. The aphorism “God is unconscious” that Lacan opposed to the formula “God is dead” leads to an interpretation of the irreducible nature of what bears the name or names of God.