ABSTRACT
The good news, the gospel, is 1ithe news of the truth of God as spoken on earth by Jesus. God in his various incarnations has provided many with consolation. He has held out the promise of future happiness whether in this life or the next and the prospect of a reward for perseverance, decrying therein the attractions of the various forms of suicide, the quick and the slow. God proffers a certainty based upon his absolute knowledge. To dispute certainty is thus one mode of avoiding the religious approach. In considering the transference after Lacan, thus the subject supposed to know, he suggests that we move away from the known/unknown dichotomy of Freud. The Freudian unconscious was an unknown knowledge which could become known thus solving its problematics. A certainty which required the interpretation of his own dreams, thus localising it.
