Theology after Lacan: The Passion for the Real - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610971019 ISBN 13: 9781610971010

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2014

Synopsis

This groundbreaking volume highlights the contemporary relevance of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), whose linguistic reworking of Freudian analysis radicalized both psychoanalysis and its approach to theology. Part I: Lacan, Religion, and Others explores the application of Lacan's thought to the phenomena of religion. Part II: Theology and the Other Lacan explores and develops theology in light of Lacan. In both cases, a central place is given to Lacan's exposition of the real, thereby reflecting the impact of his later work. Contributors include some of the most renowned readers and influential academics in their respective fields: Tina Beattie, Lorenzo Chiesa, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Adrian Johnston, Katerina Kolozova, Thomas Lynch, Marcus Pound, Carl Raschke, Kenneth Reinhard, Mario D'Amato, Noelle Vahanian, and Slavoj Zizek. Topics traverse culture, art, philosophy, and politics, as well as providing critical exegesis of Lacan's most gnomic utterances on theology, including "The Triumph of Religion"

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Review:

"...Theology after Lacan promises to be a rewarding read for scholars interested in the implications of psychoanalytic thought for theology and vice versa." -William E. Smith III, Theology & Sexuality, Vol. 21 No. 3, 2016

About the Author:

Creston Davis (PhD, University of Virginia) is assistant professor of religion at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He studied with John Milbank and Slavoj Zizek and coedited "Theology and the Political: The New Debate" with them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1610971019
• ISBN 13: 9781610971010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294
• Editor: Davis Creston