Sigmund Freud: the light of sunset

In this paper, the lecturer Octavi Fullat (born in 1928) reviews Freud's role in contemporary thought. In fact, coming across Freud's work made a great impression on the author, who was educated according to the rationalist principles of the modern age. Freud was one of the "masters of the school of suspicion». His thought gave the author a jolt that shook the foundations of his philosophy. Although the author did not overlook Freud's work on psychoanalysis and complexes, it was the Viennese doctor's philosophy of religion that most interested the Catalan thinker. In short, reflection on the sacred and the role of religion was a real stimulus, to the extent that Fullat –a man of deep religious convictions in his youth– finally reached the conclusion that there is no culture without prohibition, and consequently none without sin. In other words, religion is a cultural phenomenon.