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==Reality and Delusion==[[Freud]] regarded argued that [[monotheisticreligion]]s were an attempt to protect oneself against [[suffering] forms ] by "a delusional remoulding of [[reality]]," and thus concluded that they "must be classed among the mass-[[delusions]]" of humankind.<ref>{{F}} ''[[Civilization and Its Discontents]]''. 1930. [[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|The Future of an Illusion]]''. 1927. [[SE]] XXI, 3.</ref> [[Freud]] described [[religion]] as the sign of a highly developed state "[[universal]] [[obsessional]] [[neurosis]]."<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Obsessiove Actions and Religious Practices]]." 1907. [[civilizationSE]]IX, 116.</ref>
==Jacques Lacan==[[Jacques Lacan]] also considers himself an [[atheist]], having renounced the [[Catholic]] [[religion]] of his parents. Like [[Freud]] thought that all he opposes [[religionsreligion]] were barriers to [[culturalscience]] , and aligns [[progresspsychoanalysis]], and thus argued with the latter.<ref>{{S11}} p. 265</ref> [[Lacan]] states that they should be abandoned in favor the [[true]] [[formula]] of [[scienceatheism]] is not ''God is [[dead]]'' but ''God is [[unconscious]]''.<ref>{{S11}} p.59</ref>
=====Reality and Delusion===Examples==[[FreudLacan]] argued that 's [[discourse]] abounds in [religion[metaphor]]s were an attempt drawn from [[Christian]] [[theology]]. The most obvious example is surely the phrase the [[Name-of-the-Father]], which [[Lacan]] adopts to protect oneself against denote a fundamental [[sufferingsignifier]] whose [[foreclosure]] leads to [[psychosis]]. The changes wrought by "a delusional remoulding the [[symbolic]] are described in creationist rather than evolutionary [[terms]]. In the [[seminar]] of reality1972-3,[[Lacan]] uses the term " and thus concluded that they [[religion|God]]"must be classed among as a [[metaphor]] for the mass-delusions" of humankind.<ref>{{F}} ''[[Civilization Other|big Other]], and Its Discontentscompares [[woman|feminine]]''. 1930. [[SEjouissance]] XXI'' to the ecstacy experienced by Christian mystics such as St Teresa of Avila. <ref>{{S20}} p. 8170-1</ref>
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