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Eros crucified : death, desire, and the divine in psychoanalysis and philosophy of religion.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clemente, Matthew, 1989- author.
- Series:
- Psychology and the other
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eros (Greek deity).
- Eros.
- Desire.
- Psychology--Philosophy.
- Psychology.
- Psychology and philosophy.
- Death.
- Sex--Philosophy.
- Sex.
- Suffering--Philosophy.
- Suffering.
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Religion.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Existentialism.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 183 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]
- Contents:
- Part I Creation: A Theological Aesthetic p. 13
- 1 Oedipus and Adam: The genesis of Eros and the infancy of man p. 15
- The primacy of death: At the limits of philosophy p. 16
- The primacy of life: Beyond the limits p. 17
- Myths of origin p. 19
- Law and individuation p. 21
- The sins of space and time p. 22
- Eat and you shall die: The birth of Thanatos p. 24
- 2 Creation: Eros as word p. 31
- Diastema: Language in a fallen world p. 31
- Det Indesluttede: Language and the Sickness unto Death p. 33
- Proballein and promittere: Language sends us forth p. 36
- Pharmakon: Language as poison and cure p. 36
- Logos and mythos: Truth and what truth is like p. 38
- Pharmakos: New myths, new sacrifices, a new religion p. 40
- Thanatos: A false Eros and the language of death p. 43
- 3 Incarnation: Eros as touch, caress, kiss p. 53
- The soul that touches, or self-knowledge at a price p. 54
- The caressing hand, or the impossibility of desire p. 57
- The chiasmus of the kiss, or a possible way forward p. 61
- Betraying Eros with a kiss, or biting the bread of life p. 62
- 4 Eschaton: Sex as contradiction p. 72
- The omnipotence of love: Sex as the highest and the lowest p. 73
- Theater of cruelty: Sex as the mysticism of perversion p. 76
- Sacred onanism: Sex as self-transcendence p. 79
- Secret onanism: Sex as that which conceals perversion p. 81
- Cracked: Sex as an image of God p. 82
- Eschaton: One flesh, or the time is now p. 85
- Part II Incarnation: A Theological Dramatic p. 93
- 5 The hermeneutics of desire: On the Song of Songs p. 95
- God, the husband of Israel p. 96
- Christ, the bridegroom of the church p. 99
- Pornographic puritanism: Allegorical (mis)readings p. 102
- Love like death: Mysticism and the void p. 104
- A reading "more dark and awful" p. 108
- 6 Triune Eros p. 118
- Triune love p. 119
- Fracturing the Godhead: The unforgivable sin p. 121
- Solipsism, necrophilia, and the wages of sin p. 123
- The idiocy of love p. 125
- Can you drink the cup? p. 127
- The Kingdom within, or the time is now p. 129
- 7 Thanatos: Descent into the Id p. 143
- The aesthetics of violence: Reading Blood Meridian p. 144
- The Judge within, or the self in hell p. 148
- A reading too dark and awful p. 151
- Thanatos reconsidered: On being all Id p. 153
- 8 Resurrection ex nihilo: From nothing to all things made new p. 161
- Descent into the Id p. 162
- Anti-Oedipus: The new Adam p. 163
- Coincidence of opposites: God and the abyss p. 165
- After the death of God p. 168
- Aesthetics as first philosophy: Nietzsche and the anatheistic return p. 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 0367280485
- 9780367280482
- 9780367259396
- 0367259397
- OCLC:
- 1109410017
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