O Banquete totêmico e a eucaristia católica

um paralelo entre os rituais pós morte do pai primevo e o sacrifício de cristo

Abstract

The death of the “primeval father” by his own offspring is the central allegory of the work “Totem and Taboo”, originally published in 1913 by Freud. In this work, there is the thesis of the father figure who is symbolically brutally destroyed by his sons. This symbolic act reverberates unconsciously strongly in religious aspects, as advocated by the founder of psychoanalysis himself. This study crave to discuss the relationships that Freud brought about religious rituals and primitive people, specifically about the Catholic Eucharist, which is a symbolic ritual in which the faithful share “body and blood of Jesus Christ” and expiate their guilt and errors, asking for redemption through the death of the Christ who, according to Catholic tradition, was crucified by the Jews. Considering this context, this act can be seen as a faithful simulacrum of parricide and the following “totemic feast”, described in the aforementioned Freudian work.