The 7th Psychoanalytic Symposium in Delphi focuses on ideologies and their relationship with psychoanalysis, a science that has the characteristics of an ideology, starting with the element of faith, which is necessary for the phenomenon of transference, the key to the therapy devised by Freud and upon which the science of psychoanalysis is based.

However, when we say faith, our minds automatically go to religion. Indeed, the primary ideology of humanity has been, and despite Freud's expectations, remains religion. Because Freud believed, or rather wished, that humanity, with the help of science and reason, would overcome what he himself described as an illusion - religion - upon which, according to Freud, civilization was founded.

But his prediction has not yet been verified. The ideologies that have aspired at various times to take the place of religion have lost their vitality, allowing religion to come back into the foreground, to the detriment of the civilization that Freud envisioned, a civilization without racial prejudices, fanaticism, and violence, with faith in scientific truth and not in one or another alluring idea.

This symposium will address all aspects of ideology, including religion and psychoanalysis itself as an ideology. [Excerpt from the prologue]