Ciência, religião e ilusão no discurso freudiano: uma leitura filosófica de O futuro de uma ilusão

Abstract

In his book of the 1927 "The Future of an Illusion" Freud tries in a broader manner, support the function of religious beliefs in the human psyche and demystify them as capable of apprehending reality. For him, the psychic origin of religious ideas is the illusion, which is deeply connected with the repression of human desires and the negation thereof, which occurs in civilization. Freud does not intend to examine the truth value of religious doctrines, but states that they, in their psychological nature, they are illusions. It is the adjustment of reality to promote the pursuit of happiness. Freud points out that religion is only one stage of the human evolutionary process. It is noted that Freud was largely influenced by the strong value that positivism had in his time, thus, he defended that the only way to get at the truth was through rationality. Our work aims therefore to analyze the Freudian scientist discourse, in its relation to religion understood as illusion, from a philosophical reading of " The Future of an Illusion " and always taking into account the influence of Enlightenment ideals on the thought Freud and his work.