Apart from clinical practice, what makes psychoanalysis, at the most foundational theoretical level, a Godless discipline?

Adrian Johnston, Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism

Yet it is not true that everything is packed solid and confined on every side by corporeal substance; for there is void in things.

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things

Atheism is the bread and butter of all materialisms. Anti-Platonic it will have no truck with either gods or Ideas, or any other transcendent entity no matter what. Yet, its greatest enemy is the false materialist, the one who would soften the blow of the atheistic stance by “passing off idealist notions as materialist concepts”.(13)1 This is not your pie-in-the-sky type of philosophy, fully fleshed out it is agonistic, virulent, rude, and seeks to weed out its enemies conceptual foundations wherever it finds them. It’s enemy is religions everywhere, no matter what guise they take. And, yet, it…