Hermeneutics of the sacred in Ricoeur and psychoanalysis of religion

Abstract

The experience of the sacred is irreducible to the psychoanalytic explanation that supposes the existence of psychological tests to deny the inclination to the spiritual that the human being feels. Understanding this feeling leads us to Ricoeurian thinking, enabling reconciliation between man and God. The teleology of psychoanalysis proposed by Ricoeur defines psychoanalytic cure taking into consideration the openness to the future and the importance of salvation in the historical and mythical terrain. Our research defends the right of the contemporary individual to wonder if the human through the hand of God can be saved.