In this online seminar Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will respond to Freud’s work ‘The Future of an Illusion’, and the operation of Science around the ‘mind’ in professions/occupations such as psychology and psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.

P. Patounas will touch upon the following, amongst other, themes:

- The notion of false belief systems and its place in religion, psychology and psychoanalysis.

- Transmission of beliefs and imitation: cloning.

- ‘Forbidden questions’ in religion, psychology and psychoanalysis.

- The ‘necessity’ of a longing to attach to the father.

- The structure of psychoanalysis - is it an illusion?

- The clinic of the Act.

- Freud’s views on human nature: anti-social and destructive?

- The place of psychoanalysis between destruction and illusion.