1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969990503321

Titolo

Words : religious language matter / / Ernst van den Hemel and Asja Szafraniec, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9780823255573

0823255573

9780823255580

0823255581

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (613 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The Future of the Religious Past

Disciplina

210.14

Soggetti

Language and languages - Religious aspects

Communication - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Word as Act -- CHAPTER 2. Medieval Irish Spells -- CHAPTER 3. Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing -- CHAPTER 4. Words and Word-Bodies -- CHAPTER 5. Flesh Become Word -- CHAPTER 6. Semantic Differences, or “Judaism”/“Christianity” -- CHAPTER 7. The Name God in Blanchot -- CHAPTER 8. Humanism’s Cry -- CHAPTER 9. Intuition, Interpellation, Insight -- CHAPTER 10. Allowed and Forbidden Words -- CHAPTER 11. God Lisped -- CHAPTER 12. Rethinking the Implicit -- CHAPTER 13. What Cannot Be Said -- CHAPTER 14. Givenness and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology -- CHAPTER 15. Prayer -- CHAPTER 16. A Quarrel with God -- CHAPTER 17. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics -- CHAPTER 18. The Rise of Literal-Mindedness -- CHAPTER 19. From Star Wars to Jediism -- CHAPTER 20. The Words of the Martyr -- CHAPTER 21. Militant Religiopolitical Rhetoric -- CHAPTER 22. Thinking through Religious Nationalism -- Notes -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

It is said that words are like people: One can encounter them daily yet never come to know their true selves. This volume examines what



words are—how they exist—in religious phenomena. Going beyond the common idea that language merely describes states of mind, beliefs, and intentions, the book looks at words in their performative and material specificity. The contributions in the volume develop the insight that our implicit assumptions about what language does guide the way we understand and experience religious phenomena. They also explore the possibility that insights about the particular status of religious utterances may in turn influence the way we think about words in our language.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954777703321

Titolo

On Freud's "Beyond the pleasure principle" / / edited by Salman Akhtar and Mary Kay O'Neil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac, 2011

ISBN

1-78049-200-6

0-429-91679-5

0-429-90256-5

0-429-47779-1

1-283-07088-X

9786613070883

1-84940-709-6

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Freud Turning Points & Critical Issues

Altri autori (Persone)

AkhtarSalman <1946 July 31->

O'NeilMary Kay

Disciplina

150.195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Pleasure principle (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; CONTEMPORARY FREUD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; ON FREUD'S "BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE"; PART I: Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g); PART II: Discussion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle; 1: Jenseits and beyond:



teaching Freud's late work; 2: Life and death in Freudian metapsychology: a reappraisal of the second instinctual dualism; 3: An unusual manifestation of repetition compulsion in traumatized patients; 4. The dream in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and beyond; 5. Does the death-instinct-based theory of aggression hold up?

6. The concept of the death drive: a clinical perspective 7. Addiction to near-death; 8. Manifestations of the death instinct in the consulting room; 9. A Hindu reading of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle; 10. The trauma of lost love in psychoanalysis; Epilogue; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

Freud's ""Beyond the Pleasure Principle"" constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. Pushing aside the primacy of the tension-discharge-gratification model of mental dynamics, this work introduced the notion of a ""daemonic force"" within all human beings that slowly but insistently seeks psychic inactivity, inertia, and death. Politely dismissed by some as a pseudo-biological speculation and rapturously espoused by others as a bold conceptual advance, ""death instinct"" became a stepping stone to the latter conceptualizations of mind's