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By exploring the theological dimensions of Freud's writings and revealing unexpected psychoanalytic implication in the religious philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig's masterwork, The Star of Redemption, I offer an argument for understanding religions of revelation in therapeutic terms. The key concept in this new understanding is “the neighbor.” The being whose proximity we are enjoined to inhabit and open to according to the imperative of neighbor love is, for both Freud and Rosenzweig, a subject at odds with itself, split by thoughts, desires, fantasies, and pleasures that it can never fully claim as its own and that, in some sense, both do and do not belong to it. Against this background, love of neighbor and psychoanalytic listening can enter into a new and creative proximity.