Psychology of Religion

Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 2 (Magdalena Sedmak)

The following is the second of a two part series.  The first can be found here. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. The Ethical Relation as Language There is that which he calls ‘language‘. He writes: “Language does not belong among the relations that could appear through the […]

Psychology of Religion

Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 1 (Magdalena Sedmak)

The following is the first of a two part series. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. Collage from “An-Other Language? Psychosomatic Research and the Lévinasian Conception of Otherness in Trauma Therapy” with the research question: When Lévinas claims that „the relationship between the Same and the […]

Metaphysics Psychoanalysis

Badiou, The Event, and Psychiatry, Part 1 (Vincenzo Di Nicola)

The following is the first part in a two-part installment. This article was originally published online in the blog of the American Philosophical Association, November 2017. I: Trauma and Event  Philosophy is either reckless or it is nothing. —Alain Badiou, Second Manifesto for Philosophy [1] Instead of being reckless, as Badiou demands of philosophy, by which […]

Political Theology Psychoanalysis

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 […]