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Theology after Lacan [electronic resource] : the passion for the real / edited by Creston Davis, Marcus Pound & Clayton Crockett.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge : James Clarke, 2014Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780227902806
  • 0227902807
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 201.61 23
LOC classification:
  • BF175.4.R44
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; 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; 2: Nothing Really Matters-Rhapsody for a Dead Queen: A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas; 3: Subjectification, Salvation, and the Real in Luther and Lacan; 4: Lacan avec le Bouddha: Thoughts on Psychoanalysis and Buddhism.
5: Life Terminable and Interminable: The Undead and the Afterlife of the Afterlife-A Friendly Disagreement with Martin Hägglund6: Solidarity in Suffering with the Non-Human; Part II. Theology and the Other Lacan; 7: There Is Something of One (God): Lacan and Political Theology; 8: Woman and the Number of God; 9: Secular Theology as Language of Rebellion; 10: Making the Quarter Turn: Liberation Theology after Lacan; 11: By the Grace of Lacan; 12: The Triumph of Theology; Contributors; Bibliography; Back cover.
Summary: The central thesis of this book is that theology in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis is devoid of the ""the big Other"", i.e., a guarantee that a system of belief is forever secured by a master-signifier around which all meaning takes its place. Indeed, this book reverses this thesis: Only after Lacan can theology mean anything at all. It is precisely by rejecting the idol of God's necessity (deus ex machina) that theology can only make sense in and through the wild untamable flux and fury of an uncontrollable contingency.
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Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; 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; 2: Nothing Really Matters-Rhapsody for a Dead Queen: A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas; 3: Subjectification, Salvation, and the Real in Luther and Lacan; 4: Lacan avec le Bouddha: Thoughts on Psychoanalysis and Buddhism.

5: Life Terminable and Interminable: The Undead and the Afterlife of the Afterlife-A Friendly Disagreement with Martin Hägglund6: Solidarity in Suffering with the Non-Human; Part II. Theology and the Other Lacan; 7: There Is Something of One (God): Lacan and Political Theology; 8: Woman and the Number of God; 9: Secular Theology as Language of Rebellion; 10: Making the Quarter Turn: Liberation Theology after Lacan; 11: By the Grace of Lacan; 12: The Triumph of Theology; Contributors; Bibliography; Back cover.

The central thesis of this book is that theology in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis is devoid of the ""the big Other"", i.e., a guarantee that a system of belief is forever secured by a master-signifier around which all meaning takes its place. Indeed, this book reverses this thesis: Only after Lacan can theology mean anything at all. It is precisely by rejecting the idol of God's necessity (deus ex machina) that theology can only make sense in and through the wild untamable flux and fury of an uncontrollable contingency.

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