Por que me abandonaste? : considerações sobre as relações entre religião e neurose obsessiva

Abstract

This work seeks to investigate, initially, through the Freudian texts how the question of obsessional neurosis arises. From this, it is intended to account for considering the direct relationship between this structure and religion. The investigation in this respect passes through the sieve to clarify the relation tied to the place of the God-Father of the obsessive subject, named as a symptom. In this way, the initial bet is reached by a religious failure that puts psychoanalysis in a responsible position by a juxtaposed prediction of the end of the evil being caused by religious illusion. Lacanian theory comes to complement this passage, and in one respect it seems to be concerned with a new time, a new measure for thinking the subject. Attributing religion as a great producer of meaning, Lacan opposing the Freudian proposal, gives voice to the possibility of a triumph of religion, since this emanates the clarification of answers, becoming a machine to make sense. That said, there is something between this dichotomy of triumph and failure to be analyzed: there is something beyond the obsessive symptom of religion initially proposed by Freud. Having such an obsession always as the driving force of this work, it is possible to see religion in this respect bearing a narcissistic brand of dealing with the other, which corroborates in its north a new operation: religion may not be a Producer of obsessions, but in reverse, be the cause in which the obsessive subject later inhabits. The religion being seen through the lens of a question of the helpless son, directed to the father, who must learn to do something in his scene of abandonment. Thus, religion becomes, in addition to the symptom, a certain naming in culture, a joking letter that can ultimately become a semblance of obsession in civilization, a mode of enjoyment.