The future of illusion Contemporary

Abstract

A slight review of Freudian considerations unfolding under titles such as Totem and Taboo, The Future of an Illusion, Moses and the Monotheistic Religion, reveals with all evidence that Freud has maintained a manifestly controversial dialogue with religion throughout much of his work. If we were to risk only one conjecture regarding the various, of the likely reasons for this, we could argue that psychoanalysis and religion stand out, not only in Freud's time (and certainly in spite of his declared ideal, although, go paradox, perhaps he himself hatched the snake's egg) but even in ours, as two - among others , but today perhaps not many other- powerful paradigms of interpretation whose most prominent characteristic is that of being mutually exclusive. The text that will deal with us first, The discomfort in culture, is also inscribed, and as one of its great milestones, in that kind of tension, of open front of combat, of frank parallels between psychoanalysis and the domination of the religious.