Guiter, Bernard

Death in the Sacred Ritual and the Obsessional Symptom - 2006.


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In this work, we try to show how the sacred rite, the persistence of the first trauma, which is the unrepresentable of the murder of the father, persists in ritual. But this ritual is not only one sterile return but, also, the condition of memory. Here is the distance between religion and the illness of taboo.