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Interstices of the Sublime : Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory / Clayton Crockett.

Crockett, Clayton, author.
2022
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Title
Interstices of the Sublime : Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory / Clayton Crockett.
Author
Crockett, Clayton, author.
ISBN
9780823291830
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291830
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (232 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823291830 doi
Summary
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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Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. On Sublimation
2. We Are All Mad
3. Desiring the Thing
4. Foreclosing God
5. Anxiety and the S(ub)lime Body of God
6. Ages of the World and Creation ex Nihilo, Part I
7. Ages of the World and Creation ex Nihilo, Part II
8. God Without Being (God)
9. Expressing the Real
10. Processing the Real
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series

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