ABSTRACT
Two psychoanalysts, Moises Lemlij and Eduardo Montagne, met for coffee to talk about their experiences of and attitudes to religion, and to compare them. Eduardo Montagne is a psychoanalyst and an Associate Member of the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society. Religion is a subject that has been present in his life for as long as he could remember. The sense of security that religion provides is tremendously important at certain times of life, such as adolescence. Many possibilities and alternatives are opened up, but accompanied by a large dose of uncertainty and insecurity. Moises Lemlij is a psychoanalyst belonging to both the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society and the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He had—and still have—the chance to experience a very special sensation of being in contact with the transcendent which he would describe in a form very similar to the religious experience of the feeling of being one with the whole.
