Theology After Lacan: The Passion for the Real

by Clayton Crockett

Book Overview

This groundbreaking volume highlights the continuing relevance of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose linguistic reworking of Freudian analysis radicalised both psychoanalysis and its approach to theology. The book's fi rst section, Part I: Lacan, Religion, and Others, explores the application of Lacan's thought to the development and phenomena of religion. Part II: Theology and the Other Lacan moves through the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0227174704
• ISBN13: 9780227174708
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: James Clarke Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"