Interstices of the Sublime represents a powerful theological
engagement with psychoanalytic theory in Freud, Lacan, Kristeva and
Zizek, as well as major expressions of contemporary Continental
philosophy, including Deleuze, Derrida, Marion, and Badiou. Through
creative and constructive psycho-theological readings of topics
such as sublimation, schizophrenia, God, and creation ex nihilo,
this book contributes to a new form of radical theological thinking
that is deeply involved in the world.
Here the idea of the Kantian sublime is read into Freud and
Lacan, and compared with sublimation. The sublime refers to a
conflict of the Kantian faculties of reason and imagination, and
involves the attempt to represent what is intrinsically
unrepresentable. Sublimation, by contrast, involves the expression
and partial satisfaction of primal desires in culturally acceptable
terms. The sublime is negatively expressed in sublimation, because
it is both the "source" of sublimation as well as that which
resists being sublimated. That is, the Freudian sublime is related
to the process of sublimation, but it also distorts or disrupts
sublimation, and invokes what Lacan calls the Real. The effects of
the sublime are not just psychoanalytic but, importantly,
theological, because the sublime is the main form that "God" takes
in the modern world. A radical postmodern theology attends to the
workings of the sublime in our thinking and living, and provides
resources to understand the complexity of reality. This book is one
of the first sustained theological readings of Lacan in
English.
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