Esoteric Lacan (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Valentini, Philipp; Tourage, Mahdi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Jacques Lacan was fascinated with forms of the "religious" throughout his life, from monotheism, which shaped his account of the signifier, to modern occultism, as he was well acquainted with the writings of figures such as Oskar Goldberg and René Guénon. Lacan also repeatedly turned to non-European religiosities to test the limits of psychoanalytic theory. In his yearly seminars he engaged with traditions such as Kabbalah and Taoism, going beyond the Western Christian, capitalist and postcolonial setting of the French university to search for a possible outside to psychoanalysis. But such a quest ultimately recapitulates Lacan's constant awareness of the desire for a new master, and the still open question regarding the names and meanings that this desire may yield. This anthology of eleven essays, which travel from gnosticism to sufism, from afro-pessimism to post-68 ex-Maoist apocalypticism, investigates these unresolved threads that Lacan left behind. Beneath the exoteric psychoanalytic apparatus of Lacan's thought, there is an esoteric Lacan who remains unexplored.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881872861
• Artikelnr.: 74846783

Autorenporträt

Philipp Valentini is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Mahdi Tourage is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Social Justice and Peace Studies, King's University College at the Western University, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Philipp Valentini and Mahdi Tourage
Part I: Occulted Structures of Desire
1. "Solid Hatred Addressed to Being": Lacan's Gnostic Uses of Judaism,
Agata Bielik-Robson
2. The Will of the American god: Anti-blackness, Jouissance-Sacrifice, and
the Structuration of das Ding, Calvin Warren
3. Lacan and Sufism: Paths for Moving Beyond Pre- and Post-Modern
Subjectivities, Mahdi Tourage
4. Jacques Lacan, Wilfred Bion, and the Inverted Kabbalah, Bruce Rosenstock
Part II: Logics of the Master
5. The Capitalist Exception: Discourse, Sexuation, and Infinity, John
Holland
6. Assassination and Judgement, Miroslav Grisko
7. The Devil's Choice: Slavery and the Logic of the Vel, Jared Sexton and
Sora Han
Part III: In Nothingness where Names and Meanings Gush Forth
8. Experiences of Transcendence in the Borromean Knot, Janina Maris Hofer
9. Freedom and Nothingness, between Theodicy and Anthropodicy: Lacan and
(Un)Orthodox Perspectives, Davor Dzalto
10. The Most Mysterious of Effusions: On the Presence