Citation

Perlini T. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane 2006; 40(3): 335-354+339.

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(Copyright © 2006)

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Abstract

We often see today a return of religion, and the very concept of man is going through a crisis. Such crisis is seen as a liberation from previous oppressions. The much yearned for order appears as an orgiastic disorder, the negation of any kind of project, but it is the seducing mask of the technique/oppression that controls the world. Attempts of a rebirth of Christianity are doomed to failure, since Christianity itself is within the same crisis. Such need of religion cannot be defined as "religious", but as a "nostalgia of the sacred" that in some way is opposed to religion. It is not an institutionalized sacred, but a diffused and undifferentiated sacred in which self-destructiveness prevails, and its extreme forms may result in suicide. Such sacred is nothing but the mythical transformation of the very social reality that represses the individual, who paradoxically tries to seek salvation by subduing himself to it.

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Keywords

language; suicide; Religion; article; vertigo; social aspect; religion; individuality; institutionalization; crisis theory; Dialectics; Need of religion; Sacred; Self-destructiveness