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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
physical world and into the metaphysical, probing theological
issues and ideas of today's world with curiosity and in the light
of Lacan. In both parts I and II, a central place is given to
Lacan's exposition of the real, thereby refl ecting the impact of
his later work. Topics traverse culture, art, philosophy and
politics, as well as providing critical exegesis of Lacan's most
gnomic utterances on theology, including The Triumph of Religion.
Contributors include some of the most renowned readers and
influential academics in their respective fields: Tina Beattie,
Lorenzo Chiesa, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Adrian Johnston,
Katerina Kolozova, Thomas Lynch, Marcus Pound, Carl Raschke,
Kenneth Reinhard, Mario D'Amato, Noelle Vahanian and Slavoj Zizek.
It has been the brilliance of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj iek (b.
1949) to uniquely weave theology, psychoanalysis, and politics
together into stunning commentary on contemporary culture. Assuming
little prior knowledge of this controversial (atheist, communist)
philosopher, Marcus Pound provides the first comprehensive,
systematic account of iek's work as it relates specifically to
theology and religious studies.
The subtitle of Pound's book could have been 'Lacan with
Kierkegaard'. It stages an extraordinary dialogue between the two
thinkers, demonstrating the Kierkegaardian resonances of the key
Lacanian concepts. From now on, we know that the Freudian notion of
'trauma', its sexual references notwithst anding, belongs to the
domain of the divine. The book is a true event: after reading it,
neither Kierkegaard nor Lacan will remain the same in our
theoretical imaginary. You can ignore this book... if you want to
remain a happy idiot." - Slavoj i ek "Marcus Pound's first book is
the most important sustained reflection on the relation of Theology
and Psychoanalysis to date. His approach is admirably focussed,
since it compares the ideas of the theological founder of complex
motivational psychology - Soren Kierkegaard - with those of the
most sophisticated secular psychoanalytical theorist -Jacques
Lacan. In doing so Pound offers, in a short compass, both a
psychological deepening of theological orthodoxy and a theological
critique of psychoanalysis as such. Future engagement with this
area must begin with this lucid, subtle and brilliant treatise." -
John Milbank "The vitality of Christian theology today, its
creativity, its imaginative and scholarly engagement, are nowhere
more evident than in this book. Pound's presentation of an
interface between psychology and doctrine is as bold as it is
original. Kierkegaard meets Lacan, trauma is related to liturgy and
therapy to sacramentalism - all under the aegis of Aquinas This is
contemporary theology at its best - exploring new terrains and
forging distinctive relations between onetime strangers." - Graham
Ward
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