Interstices of the sublime : theology and psychoanalytic theory / Clayton Crockett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crockett, Clayton, 1969-

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and religion.

Sublime, The.

Sublimation (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Interstices of the Sublime is a powerful theological engagement with psychoanalytic theory in Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, and Zizek, as well as major expressions of contemporary continental philosophy, including Deleuze, Derrida/Marion, and Badiou. The sublime refers to a conflict of the Kantian faculties of reason and imagination, and involves the attempt to represent what is intrinsically unrepresentable. The effects of the sublime are not just psychoanalytic but, importantly, theological, because the sublime is the main form that "God" takes in the modern world.

Contents:

1 On Sublimation: The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Study of Religion 18

2 We Are All Mad: Theology in the Shadow of a Black Sun 37

3 Desiring the Thing: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 51

4 Foreclosing God: Heidegger, Lacan, and Kristeva 68

5 Anxiety and the S(ub)lime Body of God 81

6 Ages of the World and Creation ex Nihilo, Part I: Tillich and Schelling 97

7 Ages of the World and Creation ex Nihilo, Part II: Zizek and Lacan 117

8 God Without Being (God): A Lacanian Critique of Jean-Luc Marion 133

9 Expressing the Real: Lacan and the Limits of Language 148

10 Processing the Real: Sub-stance 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-214) and index.

ISBN:

9780823227211

0823227219

9780823227228

0823227227

OCLC:

123539400

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