195 – 2011/2012 Oxford Public Lecture, Lacan on Science and Religion, R.Litten

Later he will expand on this claim by saying that the true religion is the Roman one. « There is only one true religion and that religion is Christian. » What are we to make of these claims by the outstanding representative of contemporary psychoanalysis? What implications do they have for the faithful, whether those who believe in God or those who believe in the Unconscious? In his talk, Dr. Litten will take up these questions in order to speak about the respective places of religion and psychoanalysis in a world dominated by the advances of modern science, and the life sciences in particular.