This article aims to discuss religiosity from a psychopathological point of view. It takes into account not only the modern symptom or absence of faith, but especially how this is used as a way to fill the place destined to the other in subjectivity. In this direction, it is important to take into account the singular presence of the religiosity phenomenon in the Brazilian society and its incorporation in the psychopathological syndromes. That way it will be possible to adopt a new optic of this relationship.
religiosity; psychopathology; subjectivity