Freud and religion. The jouissance of the illusion and the real of desire
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Have we fully appreciated the importance of the “religious fact” for the creator of psychoanalysis? It is indeed the key to the Wunsch, the desiring motion that sustains illusion and, in this sense, its future is not at all uncertain. Freud tackled religion head-on throughout the course of his life’s work. In the etymological debate between religion as a social link or as a reflection of the subject, Freud identifies religion as a “passion of the father” in its two aspects: one, of bringing out the dimension of the prohibition via the totem and, two, of revealing, through the function of the illusion, the distress of Hilfslosigkeit and the “need for help” (Hilfsbedürftigkeit). Beyond the diagnosis of this psychic operation, he also identifies the “historical truth” of religion, the effect of the return of trauma in what we call “transmission.“ A structural approach to a chronic modernity of the religious form of our “discontents,” between Barbarism and sublimation.
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