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=====Sigmund Freud=====
[[Freud]] renounced the [[Jewish]] [[religion]] of his parents -- though not his [[Jewish]] [[identity]] -- and considered himself an [[atheist]].
[[Freud]] regarded [[monotheistic]] forms of [[religion]] as the sign of a highly developed state of [[civilization]].
[[Freud]] thought that all [[religions]] were barriers to [[cultural]] [[progress]], and thus argued that they should be abandoned iin in favor of [[science]].
=====Reality and Delusion=====[[Freud]] argued that [[religion]]s were an attempt to protect oneself against [[suffering]] by "a delusional remoulding of reality," and thus concluded that they "must be classed among the mass-delusions" of humankind.<ref>Freud{{F}} ''[[Civilization and Its Discontents]]''. 1903s1930. [[SE ]] XXI. p.81</ref>
[[Freud]] saw the idea of [[God]] as an expression of an [[infantile]] longing for a protective [[father]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud 1927b|The Future of an Illusion]]''. 1927. [[SE]] XXI, 3.</ref>
[[Freud]] described [[religion]] as a "universal obsessional neurosis."<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Obsessiove Actions and Religious Practices]]. " 1907. b[[SE]] IX, 116.</ref>
=====Jacques Lacan=====[[Jacques Lacan]] also considers himself an [[atheist]], having renounced the [[Catholic]] [[religion]] of his parents.
Like [[Jacques LacanFreud]] also considers imself an he opposes [[atheistreligion]], having renounced the to [[Catholicscience]] , and aligns [[religionpsychoanalysis]] of his parentswith the latter.<ref>{{S11}} p.265</ref>
=====Examples=====[[Lacan]] states that the true formula of 's discourse abounds in [[metaphor]]s drawn from [[Christian]] [[atheismtheology]] is not ''God is dead'' but ''God is unconscious''.<ref>{{S11}} p.59</ref>
The most obvious example is surely the phrase the [[Name-of-the-Father]], which [[Lacan]] adopts to denote a fundamental [[signifier]] whose [[foreclosure]] leads to [[psychosis]].
The changes wrought by the [[symbolic]] are described in creationist rather than evolutionary terms.
In the seminar of 1972-3, [[Lacan]]'s discourse abounds in metaphors drawn from uses the term "[[religion|God]]" as a [[metaphor]] for the [[Other|big Other]], and compares [[Christianwoman|feminine]] ''[[theologyjouissance]]'' to the ecstacy experienced by Christian mystics such as St Teresa of Avila.<ref>{{S20}} p.70-1</ref>
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