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This volume analyses how forms of the "religious", especially from outside the Western European tradition, shape Lacanian theory. It examines how the universal desire for meaning always expresses the radical impossibility for any speech to communicate something of the Real that is necessarily obscured by our own political existences.
List of contents
Introduction / Part I: Modern Occultism and Immemorial Monotheism / 1. Jacques Lacan, Wilfred Bion and the Kabbalah, Bruce Rosenstock / 2. The Will of an Anti-Black Idol: An Insatiable Drive, Calvin Warren / 3. Freedom and Nothingness, Between Theodicy and Anthropodicy: Lacan and (Un)Orthodox Perspectives, Davor Džalto / 4. Experiences of Transcendence in the Borromean Knot, Janina M. Hofer / Part II: Capitalism and the Occult Drive of the Master / 5. Capitalist Exceptionalism: Discourse, Sexuation and Mysticism, John Holland / 6. Last Judgment, Miroslav Griško / 7. The Occult Presence of Slavery: A Dialogue on the Logic of the Vel, Jared Sexton and Sora Han / 8. Violence by Any Other Name: The Impasse of Black Female Sexuality, Selamawit Terrefe / Part III: Stepping Outside of Colonial Religiosities / 9. Lacan and Judaism, Agata Bielik-Robson / 10. Lacan and Sufism: Paths for Moving Beyond Pre- and Post-Modern Subjectivities, Mahdi Tourage / 11. Learning to Desire Through the Desire of the Other: Lacan and Maximus the Confessor in Dialogue, Dionysius Skliris / 12. On a "Mysterious Effusion": The Presence of Lacan in Benny Lévy, Gilles Hanus / 13. Decolonizing Ibn'Arab¿ with Jacques Lacan or Why Ibn'Arabi is Not a Neoplatonist, Philipp Valentini / Conclusion / Index
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Edited by Philipp Valentini and Mahdi Tourage
Summary
This volume analyses the possibilities and limits of Lacanian theory when it comes to studying non-European religions and explores how Lacan can renew our approach to non-European "religious" beliefs. It examines the ways in which Lacan helps us to distance ourselves from the psychical/psychological effects of the universal drive of capitalism.
