Description
Theology After Lacan highlights the continuing relevance of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose linguistic reworking of Freudian analysis radicalised both psychoanalysis and its approach to theology. The book’s first section, Part I: Lacan, Religion, and Others, explores the application of Lacan’s thought to the development and phenomena of religion. Part II: Theology and the Other Lacan moves through the physical world and into the metaphysical, probing theological issues and ideas of today’s world with curiosity and in the light of Lacan. In both parts I and II, a central place is given to Lacan’s exposition of the real, thereby reflecting the impact of his later work. 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.
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, Noëlle Vahanian and Slavoj Žižek.
About the Author
Creston Davis is one of the founders of the Global Center for Advanced Studies, where he is a Co-Director and Professor of Philosophy. He is Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School and at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is also co-author of Paul’s New Moment (with Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank) and The Contradictions of America (with Alain Badiou).
Marcus Pound is Assistant Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, where he is Lecturer in Catholic Theology. His is the author of Theology, Psychoanalysis, and Trauma, and Slavoj Žižek: A (Very) Critical Introduction.
Clayton Crockett is Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. His most recent book is Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity and Event.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction – Traversing the Theological Fantasy
Creston Davis, Marcus Pound, and Clayton Crockett
Part One: Lacan, Religion, and Others
1. Cogito, Madness, and Religion: Derrida, Foucault, and Then Lacan
Slavoj Žižek
2. Nothing Really Matters – Rhapsody for a Dead Queen: A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas
Tina Beattie
3. Subjectification, Salvation, and the Real in Luther and Lacan
Carl Raschke
4. Lacan avec le Bouddha: Thoughts on Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
Mario D’Amato
5. Life Terminable and Interminable: The Undead and the Afterlife of the Afterlife
– A Friendly Disagreement with Martin Hägglund
Adrian Johnston
6. Solidarity in Suffering with the Non-Human
Katerina Kolozova
Part II: Theology and the Other Lacan
7. There Is Something of One (God): Lacan and Political Theology
Kenneth Reinhard
8. Woman and the Number of God
Lorenzo Chiesa
9. Secular Theology as Language of Rebellion
Noëlle Vahanian
10. Making the Quarter Turn: Liberation Theology after Lacan
Thomas Lynch
11. By the Grace of Lacan
Marcus Pound
12. The Triumph of Theology
Clayton Crockett
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Endorsements and Reviews
Theology after Lacan contains essays from some of the world’s most recognised theology and cultural theorists implicated in contemporary psychoanalysis and rigorously advances the conversation about the intimate intersection that binds religion and psychoanalysis intriguingly together.
Bracha L. Ettinger, author of The Matrixial Borderspace
This book exemplifies the vibrant interdisciplinary discussion taking place between theology and Lacanian psychoanalysis, a fascinating intersection between two apparently unlikely bedfellows.
Lewis Berry, in Theological Book Review, Vol 27, No 2
