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Almost seventy years ago, it occurred to Freud that religion is “like the obsessional neurosis of children” and that its roots lie in a nostalgic and powerful need for “the protection . . . provided by the father.” He contrasts religious fi ction with a “sense of reality” and with trust in rationality and a science that is imperfect but in movement and making progress.¹
After fourteen years of Socialist government, which I have described elsewhere as the republic of sons, the reemergence—via the conservative candidate (Jacques Chirac) who seems best placed to win the presidential election—of “the