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Tag: Jacques Lacan
Thinking With One’s Feet – Lacanian Theories Of Textual Engagement, Part 3 (William J. Urban)
The following is the third part in a three-part installment. The first part can be found here and the second here. The Real Lacan: Sublime Object of Texts We have hinted that many of the paradoxes and contradictions involved in the topological constitution of the subject which eventually lead Lacan to shift his emphasis onto […]
Thinking With One’s Feet – Lacanian Theories Of Textual Engagement, Part 2 (William J. Urban)
The following is the second part in a three-part installment. The first part can be found here. The Symbolic Lacan: Signifiance of Texts There are certain key écrits [1] from the 1950s that in effect fully announce Lacan’s entry into his so-called “structuralist phase.” Academically speaking, this Lacan is the most well-known of our three Lacans […]
Thinking With One’s Feet – Lacanian Theories Of Textual Engagement, Part 1 (William J. Urban)
The following is the first part in a three-part installment. Introduction In 1975, Jacques Lacan travelled to the United States to deliver a series of lectures and made a memorable stop in Boston to speak to a distinguished audience of mathematicians, linguists and philosophers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was there he first […]
Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 3 (Mark Murphy)
The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The second one can be found here. The transition to full speech is the moment when one realizes in a holistic way that one is always dependent on the Other. The symbolic order determines our ‘existence,’ but it is at […]
Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 2 (Mark Murphy)
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. What Does Lacan Mean When He Says That Spiritual Direction is a Demand for Truth? Lacan is first clear in stating that spiritual direction was a demand for truth. It is telling that he does not equate it with […]
Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 1 (Mark Murphy)
The following is the first installment of a three-part series. Introduction Spiritual direction is defined as the help one gives to another in developing one’s relationship with the sacred, while the treatment of psychological symptoms is what defines the psychological[1]. One can see the similarities between what we can call the analytic situation and the […]
Review – The Ethics Of Time (Matthew Clemente)
The Ethics of Time. Manoussakis, John. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781474299169. Hardback. 232 pages. John Manoussakis’s latest book, The Ethics of Time (2017)—the second volume of a trilogy to be—should be read as a continuation of the work he began a decade ago in God After Metaphysics (2007). In that earlier book, which […]
Lacan, Levinas, And The Politics Of The Subject (Joshua Lawrence)
Psychoanalysis has undeniably played a significant role in the development of theories critical of the social landscape. In addition to fostering a new model for self-reflection, it has functioned as a vehicle for the proliferation of subjectivities distinct from the consecrated forms of cultural life. Consequently, I will suggest here that it has an important […]