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From reading what Jacques Lacan said or wrote about the future of psychoanalysis, one would be ill-advised to become a psychoanalyst today. It is as if the changing nature of reality had finally gotten the better of his optimism. Should we be surprised? The answer is no, especially since the psychoanalyst is fast becoming an endangered species. So the truth of yesterday is even truer today. The future of psychoanalysis has never seemed as bleak as when science, in the manner of scientism, started to produce a discourse on the subject which is as suffocating as it is seductive. Consumed by guilt, scientists seem to be ready to do anything to mend their ways, including and, above all, showing a sense of responsibility, and what can be better than religion for achieving this? In any case, it is what this article tries to show, starting out from the principle that psychoanalysis has always been the revealing symptom of a given epoch, and that, as such, it is fitting to interpret it in order to reveal the hidden meaning.