Ciência moderna e triunfo da religião: análise de um prenúncio de J. Lacan em uma coletiva de imprensa de 1974

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the foreshadowing of the future of religion pronounced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan at a press conference in 1974 given to Italian journalists on the occasion of a congress of the Freudian School of Paris in Rome. Based on a careful distrust as to the pertinence and legitimacy of the author's statement, justified by the frequency with which he uses linguistic games, phrases of effect and ironies, it was verified that exists, in fact, a certain coherence and consistency between this foreshadowing and other passages in his work. Thus, a way of interpretation of the press conference was initiated with a brief presentation of the Lacanian theory about the constitution of the subject and its reality, using the main theses on the psychic orders - the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. At that moment, it was perceived certain importance of the imaginary and the symbolic orders for the constitution of the human reality; while the real was understood as a disjunctive effect on this reality. Then, a panoramic picture of the Lacanian thought about modern science was sketched out, observing two main movements: (a) one of idiosyncratic apprehension of science, aiming at a certain scientificity of psychoanalysis, mainly from the researches of Alexandre Koyré; and (b) another of interpretation of science itself. Although the two are not clearly dissociated, the emphasis on this second movement was more important to compose the central argument, since it allowed to articulate the subjective impacts of the intervention of modern science on human reality, pointed by the author, at the press conference. Finally, some considerations regarding the treatment of the theme "religion" were investigated, in a general way in the author's work, to later focus on the points highlighted from the intervention of 1974 as the idea of "true religion" and of "meaning". This made it possible to connect the relations between (modern) science, real, anxiety and meaning, intricate in the foreshadowing of the triumph of religion.