Wrestling with the angel : experiments in symbolic life / Tracy McNulty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNulty, Tracy, author.

Series:

Insurrections

Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xiv, 300 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Contents:

Part 1 Reinventing The Symbolic

1 Inventions of the Symbolic: Lacan's Reading of Freud 51

Beyond the Oedipus Complex 54

The Invention of the Transference 61

The "Subject Supposed to Know," or the Constraint of the Address 73

The Institution of the Mosaic Law 79

2 Demanding The Impossible: Desire and Social Change 86

Anxiety as a Response to the Desire of the Other 92

The Murder of Moses, the Leader Who Would Not Lead 97

The Constraint of the Transference 106

The Love of the Enemy in the Discourse of Jesus 111

Part 2 Political Theology and The Question of the Written

3 Wrestling with the Angel 125

The Road to Damascus: A Political-Theological Fable 130

Jacob's Struggle with the Angel 133

Voice and the Persecution of the Letter 146

4 The Gap in the Law and the Unwritable Act of Decision: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology 151

The Unwritable Border as Fulfillment of the Law 152

The Gap in the Law and the Function of the Symbolic 163

Political Theology and the Question of the Border 173

5 The Event of the Letter: Two Approaches to the Law and Its Real 176

Alain Badiou on Law: Saint Paul and USes of the World "Jew" 177

Jewis Legalism and Transmission of Writing 183

The Universal as an "Address to All" 193

The Event of the Mosaic Law 200

6 The Commandment Against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment 205

"Critique of Violence" 208

Language as "Pure Means" 216

Writing and Divine Justice 222

Wrestling with the Angel 224

The Negative Exhibition of the Infinite 228

Coda: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life

7 Freedom Through Constraints: On the Question of Will 239

Will, Superego, and the Voice of Conscience: Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem 240

Will and Constraint in Kant's Critical Project 247

Constraint Degree Zero: The Literal Practice of the Oulipo The Symbolic and the Social Link 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231161183

0231161182

9780231161190

0231161190

OCLC:

863199811