Theology after Lacan

Creston Davis is one of the founders of the Global Center for Advanced Studies, where he is a Co-Director and Professor of Philosophy. He is Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School and at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is also co-author of Paul's New Moment (with Slavoj iek and John Milbank) and The Contradictions of America (with Alain Badiou). Marcus Pound is Assistant Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, where he is Lecturer in Catholic Theology. His is the author of Theology, Psychoanalysis, and Trauma, and Slavoj iek: A (Very) Critical Introduction. Clayton Crockett is Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. His most recent book is 'Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity and Event'.

The central thesis of this book is that theology in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis is devoid of the the big Other, i.e., a guarantee that a system of belief is forever secured by a master-signifier around which all meaning takes its place. Indeed, this book reverses this thesis: Only after Lacan can theology mean anything at all."

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.

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.

Acknowledgments Introduction - Traversing the Theological Fantasy -Creston Davis, Marcus Pound, and Clayton Crockett Part One: Lacan, Religion, and Others 1 Cogito, Madness, and Religion: Derrida, Foucault, and then Lacan -Slavoj Zizek 2 Nothing Really Matters - Rhapsody for a Dead Queen: A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas -Tina Beattie 3 Subjectification, Salvation, and the Real in Luther and Lacan -Carl Raschke 4 Lacan avec le Bouddha: Thoughts on Psychoanalysis and Buddhism -Mario D'Amato 5 Life Terminable and Interminable: The Undead and the Afterlife of the Afterlife - A Friendly Disagreement with Martin Hagglund -Adrian Johnston 6 Solidarity in Suffering with the Non-Human -Katerina Kolozova Part II: Theology and the Other Lacan 7 There Is Something of One (God): Lacan and Political Theology -Kenneth Reinhard 8 Woman and the Number of God -Lorenzo Chiesa 9 Secular Theology as Language of Rebellion -Noelle Vahanian 10 Making the Quarter Turn: Liberation Theology after Lacan -Thomas Lynch 11 By the Grace of Lacan -Marcus Pound 12 The Triumph of Theology -Clayton Crockett Contributors Bibliography.