In this article we seek to make visible the traces of a certain theory of culture present in the discourse of Freud, from the perspective created by the essay The Future of an Illusion. We register a curious parallel between Freud's discourse and that of John Lennon, some decades later. We also present Freud's ideas as parts of a "scientific project" and seek to make visible the multiple relationships established with culture, specially through the analysis of religious ideas, and the context which originated them, infantile helplessness, or human helplessness in general. We will further discuss the nature of this field that takes culture as an opportunity for analysis and interpretation (Cultural Hermeneutics), the notion of 'libideme' as the libidinal counterpart of the ephocal episteme proposed by Foucault, and the horizon of transition from a culture oriented by repression to a culture oriented by perversion - all of this coinciding directly over life and art, producing apparently irresolvable questions.
Culture and psychoanalysis; Cultural hermeneutics; Composition and culture; Music and psychoanalysis; Religion and culture