Esoteric Lacan

by Tourage, Mahdi Valentini, Philipp

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Title Statements

Full title :Esoteric Lacan / edited by Philipp Valentini and Mahdi Tourage.

Summary

"Jacques Lacan is a seminal figure in the history of thought, whose radical contributions to thinking on subjectivity, sexuality and language are hugely influential. However, Lacan's engagements with religion - and specifically with traditions beyond the hegemonic European tradition - have not received the attention they deserve. Lacan himself translated Taoist texts, studied Maimonides' The Guide for the Perplexed and engaged with occultism, Sufism and the Kabbalistic tradition. This book offers the first in-depth exploration of his work in this area, asking: how did the different discourses on 'religion' influence Lacan's own thinking? And what can Lacanian theory offer when it comes to the study of non-European religious beliefs? Can it help us to step outside of the Western Christian framework that still organizes the academic knowledge of what religion should be? "-- Back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rowman & Littlefield International
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 246 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781786609700, 1786609703
oclc:on1100601890
LC Classification:BF109.L28
Dewey Decimal:150.19/5

Introduction : esotericism? / Philipp Valentini, Mahdi Tourage -- "Solid hatred addressed to being" : Lacan's gnostic uses of Judaism / Agata Bielik-Robson -- The will of the American God : anti-blackness, Jouissonce-sacrifice, and the structuration of das Ding / Calvin Warren -- Lacan and Sufism : paths for moving beyond pre- and postmodern subjectivities / Mahdi Tourage -- Jacques Lacan, Wilfred Bion, and the inverted Kabbalah / Bruce Rosenstock -- The capitalist exception : discourse, sexuation, and infinity / John Holland -- Assassination and judgement / Miroslav Griško -- The devil's choice : slavery and the logic of the Vel / Jared Sexton, Sora Han -- Experiences of transcendence in the Borromean knot / Janina Maris Hofer -- Freedom and nothingness, between theodicy and anthropodicy : Lacan and (un)orthodox perspectives / Davor Džalto -- The most mysterious of effusions : on the presence of Jacques Lacan in the work of Benny Lévy / Gilles Hanus, translated by John Holland -- Meaning and emptiness : re-introducing Ibn 'Arabī to late modern minds / Philipp Valentini.

Subjects

Cabala -- Philosophy Lacan, Jacques Psychanalyse Psychanalyse -- Aspect religieux Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis and religion Psychoanalytic Theory Psychologie et religion Psychology and religion Religion and Psychology