In the 42nd Sigmund Freud Lecture, Slavoj Žižek interprets the relationship between religion and the death drive not as if religion were an expression of the death drive and thus a tool of dark forces. On the contrary, Žižek connects religion and psychoanalysis in their emancipatory aspects. What they share is the power of negation. Psychoanalysis finds in the death drive a final abyss that allows no accommodation with the status quo, and religion is not absolute certainty, but absolute doubt. The experience of the divine is the experience that our lives are out of joint.