Sigmund Freud e Jürgen Moltmann : da religião enquanto ilusão ao sentido da experiência religiosa : um estudo interdisciplinar entre teologia e psicanálise

Abstract

The present dissertation aims at investigating the possibility of dialogue between some of Sigmund Freud’s and Jürgen Moltmann’s positions. The intention is to verify, from this possible dialogue, whether Freud’s psychoanalysis is capable of bringing contributions to theology. The following works of Freud are studied, in specific, on religion: “Obsessive actions and religious practices” (1907), “Totem and taboo” (1913), “The future of an illusion” (1917), “Civilization and its discontents” (1929), “Moses and monotheism” (1939); the studied works of Moltmann are “Theology of hope” (1964), “The crucified God” (1972). In this comparative analysis of texts, we work on the assumption that Sigmund Freud, in this studies, remained restricted to observation of the religious phenomenon from the perspective of obsessive neurosis, therefore not including the possible insights his general theory of the human mind could engender to the mature religious experience, as Jürgen Moltmann defines it.