psychoanalysts since sigmund freud have tried to discuss the role of religion in modern societies. freud himself saw religion as an illusion which had struck neurotics, while slavoj žižek viewed it as some sort of “perversion” which functioned in the cycle of law-transgression. in this essay, i dig into these theories to uncover traces of lutheran interpretations of paul’s words on the jewish l...

Love, Tennessee Williams remarked, is another four letter word. It is one of the most misunderstood words in life and in psychoanalysis, in health and disease, for a long time an unmentionable taboo among psychoanalysts. Thus the Vocabulaire of Laplanche and Pontalis (1973) contains only the entry “Libido,” as does the original Glossary of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts published by the Amer...