As an experience of the awakening of the meaning, psychoanalysis is a discovery which aims at revealing that which religion covers up, in that it operates in the field of meaning in an exact opposition to the latter. That is why Freud's work leads to the analysis of religion, as if it were destined towards it, from its very beginning. The radical opposition between psychoanalysis and religion resides in the antinomic fashion in which they both operate in the field of meaning: while the first aims at obtaining an effect of real meaning, the second is geared towards an imaginary closure of this field.
Awakening; dream; fantasy; delusion; illusion