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 […]

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 […]