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The first installment can be found here. Zoroastrianism is believed to be an outgrowth of an [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-mythology-of-afterlife-beliefs-and-their-impact-on-religious-conflict-part-2-brigid-burke/) ![The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/selfport.webp) ### [The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-part-2-roger-green/) December 26, 2016 — By Roger K. Green The following is the second of a two-part series. The first installment, published on Dec. 19, 2016, can be found here. In Writing Degree Zero, Barthes suggests [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-part-2-roger-green/) ![The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 1 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/jnnocence1094.webp) ### [The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 1 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-roger-green/) December 19, 2016 — By Roger K. Green In his preface to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault asks the authors’ forgiveness for describing their book as the first book of ethics [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-roger-green/) ![Hanging Garlands Of Flowers On The Chains That Bind – Soft Totalitarianism and Techno-Rationality (Jeff Appel)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/bd7ff1a1c6e460bf8e87a4fa0ee90199.webp) ### [Hanging Garlands Of Flowers On The Chains That Bind – Soft Totalitarianism and Techno-Rationality (Jeff Appel)](/religioustheory/posts/hanging-garlands-of-flowers-on-the-chains-that-bind-soft-totalitarianism-and-techno-rationality-jeff-appel/) November 2, 2016 — By Jeff Appel This article was originally a paper delivered at the conference “Reclaiming the Unconscious – On The Intersection of Psychoanalysis With the Humanities,” [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/hanging-garlands-of-flowers-on-the-chains-that-bind-soft-totalitarianism-and-techno-rationality-jeff-appel/) ![Shamanism and Entheogens – Toward A Psychoanalysis Of The New “Dream Time” (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/10/sorrowing-old-man-psilocybin-depression.webp) ### [Shamanism and Entheogens – Toward A Psychoanalysis Of The New “Dream Time” (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/shamanism-and-entheogens-toward-a-psychoanalysis-of-the-new-dream-time-roger-green/) October 24, 2016 — By Roger K. Green There is no reason why therapy rooms for psychedelic sessions must be adorned with the default Buddha icons, fractal posters, and Indian drapes It highlights [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/shamanism-and-entheogens-toward-a-psychoanalysis-of-the-new-dream-time-roger-green/) ![Recovering the Unconscious – A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion – CFP](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/04/freud-and-clutter.webp) ### [Recovering the Unconscious – A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion – CFP](/religioustheory/posts/call-for-papers-and-presentation-recovering-the-unconcious-a-conference-on-the-intersection-of-psychoanalysis-with-politics-philosophy-and-religion/) April 2, 2016 — By editors A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Sponsored by the University of Denver and the Colorado Analytic Forum [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/call-for-papers-and-presentation-recovering-the-unconcious-a-conference-on-the-intersection-of-psychoanalysis-with-politics-philosophy-and-religion/) [The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT)](https://jcrt.org) is an online, peer-reviewed, academic publication published by [The Whitestone Foundation](http://thewhitestonefoundation.org/), a 501c3 corporation located in Boulder, Colorado. 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