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The heart of man's desire : Lacanian psychoanalysis and early Reformation thought / / Herman Westerink



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Autore: Westerink Herman <1968-, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: The heart of man's desire : Lacanian psychoanalysis and early Reformation thought / / Herman Westerink Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
Disciplina: 150.19/5
Soggetto topico: Psychoanalysis and religion
Psychoanalysis - Moral and ethical aspects
Psychoanalysis - Philosophy
Reformation
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Cultural paternity: mapping the terrain; Freud's scepticism towards liberal Protestantism; Historical-critical methods; Religion as the aftermath of culpability; The roots of filiation: the church fathers; The key issue: the problem of evil; Lacan's project; The inaugural moment of the modern subject; The ethics of psychoanalysis; Desire, the law and the Thing; Moses' and Kant's Thing; Double government; The key words; 2 The will and the hidden God; The emergence of the dark God; Nominalism's fearsome God
The Augustinian way: far from loving all mankindWhat he ought to do, not what he can do; Below the words and works; To be the object of hatred rather than love; The will, its object and cause; The denial of the good; The desire of the Other; Luther's Thing; The first cause and predestination; The inclinations of animals; The immanent cause; The repercussions of a new direction of thought; 3 Original sin and moral responsibility; Original sin: The many-headed Hydra; Evil nature; Moral responsibility and the ethics of honesty; Spinozian ethics; 4 Conscience; Synderesis and conscience: a sketch
Luther's two kingdomsCalvin's double government; The most cruel of all executioners; Conscience and the sense of guilt; The obscure, blind, and tyrannical superego; Final remarks; Notes; References; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Can Luther's writings inform us on the fundamental questions of Freudian psychoanalysis? Does an intellectual filiation between early Reformation thought and psychoanalysis exist? Does Lacanian psychoanalysis offer an instrument for analysing theological writings?In The Heart of Man's Destiny, Herman Westerink offers a new reading of Lacan's seventh seminar, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Working from an innovative perspective, this book explores the close relationship between Freudian psychoanalysis and the ideas of the early Reformation. Lacan
Titolo autorizzato: The heart of man's desire  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-54707-4
9786613859525
1-136-24422-0
0-203-10335-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910800067003321
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Serie: Psychoanalytic explorations series.