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Eros crucified : death, desire, and the divine in psychoanalysis and philosophy of religion.

Van Pelt Library BF575.D4 C54 2020
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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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