ABSTRACT
Perhaps, man is the unique entity to have and establish relationships with certain ‘objects’ that go beyond their material reality, transcending it to designate another reality beyond the physical. Among them, we could characterize as ‘Transcendent Objects’ (e.g. God, par excellence, such as the Devil and other entities belonging to this universe, whether subject to acceptance, aversion or rejection) those responsible for constituting the basis for developing feelings and religious ideas, and they can also be understood (in their origin, sense and function) from the perspective of psychoanalysis. Therefore, delimiting our proposal of analysis, this article aimed to analyze such objects from the point of view of Sigmund Freud, thus, analyzing their origin in the processes of sublimation of sexuality and in the projective and identification processes that characterize the emotional development of the human being. Such understanding can assist in clinical intervention of cases where there is a personal relationship or a centrality of these objects in personal experiences, as well as with the area of psychology of religion in its investigations.
Keywords:
Psychoanalysis and religion; psychology of religion; Freud