Embracing the void : rethinking the origin of the sacred /

A radical reinterpretation of the origin of religion through a psychoanalytic theorization of the unknown. Renowned psychoanalytic philosopher Richard Boothby puts forward a novel theory of religion inspired by Jacques Lacan's theory of das Ding, the disquieting, inaccessible dimension of fello...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Boothby, Richard, 1954- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2023].
Series:	Diaeresis.
Subjects:	Psychoanalysis and religion. Philosophy and religion. Holy, The. Nothing (Philosophy) PHILOSOPHY / Religious. PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism.

Table of Contents:

Preface: Is Nothing Sacred?
Introduction: Reposing Freud's Final Question
Rereading Lacan (or, What Is the Other?)
Religion from Freud to Lacan
The Abyss of the Other
The Ex Nihilo of the Signifier
Rethinking Religion (or, What Is the Sacred?)
Greek Polytheism: The Worship of Force
Judaism: The Worship of Law
Christianity: The Worship of Love
Other Paths, Other Gods
Conclusions.